''Selenochlamys'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

predatory Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill t ...

air-breathing land slugs, shell-less pulmonate gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

s in the family

Trigonochlamydidae Trigonochlamydidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Distribution The native distribution of Trigonochlamy ...

Species

Species within the genus ''Selenochlamys'' include: * ''

Selenochlamys pallida ''Selenochlamys pallida'' is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae. ''Selenochlamys pallida'' is the type species of the genus ''Selenochlamys''. Di ...

'' Boettger, 1883 - the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...

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Selenochlamys ysbryda ''Selenochlamys ysbryda'', the ghost slug, is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae. The species was first recognised from various sites in Wales and ...

'' Rowson & Symondson, 2008Rowson B. & Symondson O. C. (2008) "''Selenochlamys ysbryda'' sp. nov. from Wales, UK: a Testacella-like slug new to western Europe (Stylommatophora: Trigonochlamydidae)". ''Journal of Conchology'' 39(5): 537-552
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References

External links

''Selenochlamys'' at AnimalBase
{{Taxonbar, from=Q16994470 Trigonochlamydidae