Limax conemenosi
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Illustration by Limax conemenosi (from Simroth, 1891: plate 1, fig. 2) |
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Limax conemenosi is a slug -Art from the family of the slug (Limacidae) that the terrestrial snails belongs (gastropod).
features
Limax conemenosi is stretched out 10 to 12 cm long in the adult stage (up to 8 cm in preserved specimens). The keel is comparatively very short and not very clearly formed. The coat is also comparatively short; it takes only about ¼ of the body length. Between the midline and the breathing hole are 21 to 23 fine, flattened wrinkles. The color varies from dirty cream to yellowish gray to reddish gray. The sides are often a little lighter. The mantle shield is regularly marked with numerous, about 1 mm large black, sharply delimited spots, which are often outlined in light. The coat shield is also finely granulated, the back with coarse, longitudinal wrinkles. The whitish sole of the foot has three fields, and the edge of the sole is whitish. The slime is colorless.
In the genital system, the penis is about half the length of the body. The penile retractor muscle inserts about two thirds of the penis length (calculated from the base). The spermatic duct opens laterally near the apical end into the penis. The apex thus forms a blind end. There is no appendix in the digestive tract.
Similar species
In comparison to Limax cephalonicus, Limax conemenosi has a significantly longer penis. The retractor muscle starts at about two thirds of the length of the penis, compared to about half the length of the penis in L. cephalonicus .
Geographical distribution, habitat and way of life
The distribution area extends from Serbia , Macedonia , Bulgaria and southern Albania over almost all of Greece , in the south including the Peloponnese , but not to the Greek islands. In Bulgaria the species was found up to an altitude of 1300 m.
The animals live in forests and bushland, also spread synanthropically in the cultivated area, usually on walls and stones. The species does not seem to crawl up trees like other Limax species do.
Taxonomy
The species was first described by Oskar Boettger in 1882 . The type locality is Preveza (Greece). Limax (Heynemannia) Conemenosi var. Multipunctata Boettger, 1885 Limax pestaniensis Rähle 1977 are seen by Wiktor (2001) as younger synonyms.
supporting documents
literature
- Rosina Fechter and Gerhard Falkner: molluscs. 287 p., Mosaik-Verlag, Munich 1990 (Steinbach's Nature Guide 10) ISBN 3-570-03414-3 (p. 188)
- Wiktor, Andrzej 2001: Fauna Graeciae. VIII. The slugs of Greece (Arionidae, Milacidae, Limacidae, Agriolimacidae - Gastropoda, Stylommatophora). 240 p., Natural History Museum of Crete & Hellenic Zoologic Society, Heraklion, Crete (pp. 68–71)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Božana J. Karaman 2012: Fauna of Gastropoda (Mollusca) in Fruška Gora Mountains, Vojvodina (Serbia). Fauna Montenegrina, 11 (1): 7-34, Podgorica PDF
- ↑ Babor, JF: About the Dr. H. Rebel collected nudibranchs in Eastern Rumelia in 1896. Annals of the Imperial and Royal Natural History Court Museum, 13: 40-44, Vienna 1899 PDF .
- ↑ Fehér, Zóltan & Zóltan Péter Erőss 2009: Contribution to the Mollusca fauna of Albania. Results of the field trips of the Hungarian Natural History Museum between 1992 and 2007. Schriften zur Malakozoologie, 25: 3-21, Cismar PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Reischütz, L. Peter 1985: Localities of some types of nudibranchs in Greece. Announcements of the Zoological Society Braunau, 4: 303, Braunau PDF
- ^ Böttger, O. 1882. Nudibranchs from Greece, the Jonian Islands and Epirus. II. Nudibranchs from Epirus and the Jonian Islands. News sheet of the German Malacoological Society, 14 (6/7): 96-101, Frankfurt / M. Online at Biodiversity Heritage Library (p. 100)
- ↑ Boettger, Oskar 1885: List of the gastropods collected in Thessaly. Yearbooks of the German Malacoological Society, 12: 158-200, Frankfurt / M. Online at Biodiversity Heritage Library (p. 158)
- ^ Rähle, W. 1977: Limacids from southern Yugoslavia (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Archive for Molluscology, 107 (4/6): 225-247, Frankfurt / M. (P. 228)
