Lehmannia melitensis

Lehmannia melitensis
	Lehmannia melitensis from Sicily
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Limacidae
Subfamily:	Limacinae
Genus:	Lehmannia
Species:	L. melitensis
Binomial name
	Lehmannia melitensis; (Lessona & Pollonera, 1882)
Synonyms
	Limax melitensis Lessona & Pollonera, 1882

Lehmannia melitensis is a species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae.

The right side of Lehmannia melitensis showing the pneumostome

The foot of Lehmannia melitensis

Distribution

The distribution of this species includes Malta and Italy (Sicily, Aeolian Islands, Sardinia, and the Tuscan Archipelago).^[2] It also has been found in Tunisia and Algeria.^[3]^[4]

^ Lessona, M.; Pollonera C. (1882). Monografia dei limacidi italiani. Turin: Ermanno Loescher. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10743.
^ Species summary for Lehmannia melitensis. AnimalBase
^ Abbes, I.; Liberto, F.; Castillejo, J.; Nouira, S. (2010). "A review of slugs and semi-slugs of Tunisia (Testacellidae, Milacidae and Limacidae)". Journal of Conchology. 40: 219–231.
^ Hutchinson, John M.C.; Reise, Heike; Schlitt, Bettina (7 July 2022). "Will the real Limax nyctelius please step forward: Lehmannia, Ambigolimax, or Malacolimax? No, Letourneuxia!". Archiv für Molluskenkunde International Journal of Malacology. 151 (1): 19–41. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/151/019-041.

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