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Mantleslugs
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Mantleslugs

Philomycidae

Philomycidae are a family of air-breathing land slugs (snails without shells or with only shell remnants). They are terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arionoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

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4 branches of this family, most-observed first

Philomycus

genusPhilomycus

Megapallifera

genusMegapallifera

Meghimatium

genusMeghimatium

Pallifera

genusPallifera

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 143303.