Ambigolimax nyctelius

TaxID: 1461391

Basic Information

Ambigolimax nyctelius

Balkan Threeband Slug, Striped Garden Slug

The name Ambigolimax nyctelius (and similarly Lehmannia nyctelia and Limax nyctelius) has been used to refer to several species of air-breathing land slugs (terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs) in the family Limacidae. An article published in 2022 revealed this confusion and furthermore showed that the original description applied to a slug species in a different family. The above names are therefore no longer appropriate and care is need to interpret the meaning of earlier usages. The following five species were confused: Letourneuxia nyctelia (family Arionidae) is the slug originally described. Until 2022 it was mostly known as Letourneuxia numidica; Ambigolimax waterstoni is believed native in Algeria but has been reported also from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Elba and some Scottish botanic gardens; Ambigolimax parvipenis is a widespread invasive species in the British Isles and California, and has been reported also from Algeria, Spain, France, Greece and Arizona; Lehmannia carpatica occurs mostly at high altitudes along the chain of the Carpathian Mountains and in other ranges further south from Albania to Bulgaria; Simroth and Pollonera used the species name nyctelia for a poorly known species from North Africa attributed to the genus Malacolimax.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Mollusca

Gastropoda

Stylommatophora

Limacidae

Ambigolimax

nyctelius

nan

Photos (5 photos)

Ambigolimax nyctelius
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(c) Sequoia Dahlstrom@BY-NC
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(c) audrey_vanegas@BY-NC
Ambigolimax nyctelius
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(c) audrey_vanegas@BY-NC
Ambigolimax nyctelius
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(c) Ron Matsumoto@BY-NC
Ambigolimax nyctelius
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(c) Allison lopez@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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No distribution records available.

Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR5239618 cerebral ganglion, visceral, pedal and pleural ganglion - - 27412170 Australia: Casterton Victoria

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature