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Limax luctuosus is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs. So far, it has not been adequately investigated and is therefore an unsafe species. [1]
| Limax luctuosus | |
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| Juvenile of Limax cf. luctuosus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Limacidae |
| Genus: | Limax |
| Species: | L. luctuosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Limax luctuosus Moquin-Tandon, 1855 | |
The taxon was first described by Alfred Moquin-Tandon in 1855 as a var. of Limax maximus.[2] It could be a form of Limax cinereoniger or an endemic species. [1]
Limax luctuosus was described from France, but it should also be present in the western Alps.[3][4]
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