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Limacus maculatus, the green cellar slug or Irish yellow slug, is a species of slug native to the Caucasus and Black Sea coast.[2] It has also been introduced to a number of northern European countries. In its introduced range the species is often synanthropic. It is most likely to be confused with Limacus flavus, which it closely resembles externally.
| Limacus maculatus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Limacidae |
| Genus: | Limacus |
| Species: | L. maculatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Krynickillus maculatus Kaleniczenko, 1851 | |
Limax ecarinatus Boettger, 1881 is the appropriate name if Limacus is considered a subgenus of Limax.[3] The reason is that Nunneley already described a Limax maculatus in 1837; this turned out to be a synonym of Limax maximus, but nevertheless the combination Limax maculatus cannot be re-applied to a species described under the name maculatus at a later date (even though that 1851 description used a different genus, Krynickillus).
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This species is believed to be native in parts of Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Turkey, southwestern Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.[2][5] It has now spread to:
- Hungary[9]
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