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Anadenidae

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Anadenidae
Anadenus altivagus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Arionoidea
Family: Anadenidae
Pilsbry, 1948[1]
Genera

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Anadenidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arionidae.[2]

Genera

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Two genera are recognised in the Family Anadenidae:

References

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  1. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1948). Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), volume II(2). Anadenidae is on pages 665 and 676.
  2. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Anadenidae Pilsbry, 1948". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2022-10-09.

Further reading

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  • Gupta P. K. & Oli B. P. (1998). "The life cycle and growth of the slug, Anadenus altivagus (Theobald) from Kumaon Himalayan forests, India". Journal of Molluscan Studies 64: 250-253. doi:10.1093/mollus/64.2.250
  • Kuzminykh A. A. & Schileyko A. A. (2005). "Slugs of the family Anadenidae Pilsbry, 1948 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) with descriptions of two new subgenera and three new species". Ruthenica 15(2): 109-118.
  • Schileyko A. A. (2007). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, Part 15 Oopeltidae, Anadenidae, Arionidae, Philomycidae, Succineidae, Athoracophoridae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2(15): 2049-2210.