''Vaginulus'' is a genus of air-breathing

land slug Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less 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 shell, or only a sma ...

s, shell-less

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

Veronicellidae The Veronicellidae, also known by their common name the leatherleaf slugs, are a family of pulmonate terrestrial slugs. The herbivorous molluscs occur mainly in the tropical and subtropical areas of America, Asia and Africa. They act as interme ...

, the leatherleaf slugs.

Species

Species in the genus ''Vaginulus'' include: * '' Vaginulus buergueri'' (Simroth, 1914) Baker H. B. (1925). "North American Veronicellidae". ''

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'' 77: 157-184, pl. 4.Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". ''

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'' 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 * '' Vaginulus rodericensis'' Smith, 1876 * '' Vaginulus sloanii'' (Cuvier, 1817) * '' Vaginulus taunaisii'' (Férussac, 1821) Synonyms: * ''Vaginulus occidentalis'' (Guilding, 1825) is a synonym of '' Diplosolenodes occidentalis'' * ''Vaginulus sinensis'' Heude, 1882 is a synonym of ''

Rathouisia leonina ''Rathouisia leonina'' is a species of carnivorous air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rathouisiidae. This species is endemic to China. This slug is carnivorous and actively preys on snails. It is us ...

'' Heude, 1882Wu M., Guo J.-Y., Wan F.-H., Qin Q.-L., Wu Q. & Wiktor A. (2006). "A preliminary study of the predatory terrestrial mollusk ''Rathouisia leonina''". ''The Veliger'' 48
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74. * ''Vaginulus stuxbergi'' Westerlund, 1883 is a synonym of '' Oncis stuxbergi'' (Westerlund, 1883)

References

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