The natural distribution of the family Limacidae is the Western Palaearctic and into adjacent parts of Asia,[3][4] but species such as Limacus flavus, Limax maximus and Ambigolimax valentianus have been introduced almost worldwide in temperate regions.[5] There are 28 species of Limacidae in Russia and adjacent countries.[6]
Cytology
In this family, the number of haploidchromosomes lies between 21 and 25 and also lies between 31 and 35 (according to the values in this table).[7]
Genera
Currently recognised genera in the family Limacidae are:[2]
Ambigolimax Pollonera, 1887;[8] formerly considered a subgenus of Lehmannia[9]
Bielzia Clessin, 1887 – with the only species Bielzia coerulans M. Bielz, 1851. Some authors, for example Russian malacologists,[6] have classified Bielzia within its own family Bielzidae (= Limacopsidae) or subfamily Bielzinae, but a molecular phylogeny has subsequently placed it within Limacinae.[9]
12Hausdorf, B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): vicariance events and long‐distance dispersal". Journal of Biogeography. 27 (2): 379–390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x.
↑Wiktor, A.; Bössneck, U. (2004). "Limax (Limax) seticus n. sp. from high mountains in Nepal (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Limacidae)". Folia Malacologica. 12 (4). doi:10.12657/folmal.012.017.
123456Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V.(published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.
↑Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
123Hutchinson, JMC; Schlitt, B; Reise, H (2026). "Ambigolimax, Lehmannia and other limacid slugs (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora); what their DNA tells us about phylogeny, taxonomy and phylogeography". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 92 (1) eyaf031. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyaf031.
↑Giusti, F.; Lesicki, A.; Benocci, A.; Pieńkowska, J.R.; Manganelli, G. (2021). "Weltersia obscura , a new slug from the island of Montecristo (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy): a hitherto undiscovered endemic or a recent alien? (Mollusca, Pulmonata, Limacidae)". Systematics and Biodiversity. 19 (7): 648–664. doi:10.1080/14772000.2021.1908442.
