''Pallifera'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of air-breathing land

slug Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less Terrestrial mollusc, terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the family

Philomycidae Philomycidae are a family of air-breathing land slugs (snails without shells or with only shell remnants). They are terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arionoidea (according to the Taxonomy of the G ...

Species

Species include: *'' Pallifera costaricensis'' (Mörch, 1857) *'' Pallifera dorsalis'' (Binney, 1842) – pale mantleslug * '' Pallifera fosteri'' – Foster mantleslug * '' Pallifera hemphilli'' – black mantleslug * '' Pallifera marmorea'' – marbled mantleslug * '' Pallifera megaphallica'' – woody mantleslug * '' Pallifera ohioensis'' – redfoot mantleslug * '' Pallifera pilsbryi'' – Arizona mantleslug * '' Pallifera ragsdalei'' – whiteface mantleslug * '' Pallifera secreta'' – severed mantleslug * '' Pallifera tournescalis'' – Ouachita mantleslug * '' Pallifera varia'' – variable mantleslug

Cladogram

cladogram A cladogram (from Greek language, Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an Phylogenetic tree, evolutionary tree because it does not s ...

based on sequences of cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of genera in the family Philomycidae by Tsai & Wu (2008)Tsai C.-L. & Wu S.-K. (2008). A new ''Meghimatium'' slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan. ''Zoological Studies'' 47(6): 759-766
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(simplified): ''Arion'' and ''Deroceras'' were used as

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References

External links

LifeDesks, Terrestrial Slugs Web
Philomycidae Gastropod genera {{Philomycidae-stub