Selenochlamys is a genus of predatory air-breathing land slugs, shell-less pulmonate gastropod molluscs. When described it was supposed to be in the family Trigonochlamydidae, but DNA evidence has shown it to be in the Oxychilidae instead.[2]
| Selenochlamys | |
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| A live individual of Selenochlamys ysbryda, head end towards the lower left | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Oxychilidae |
| Genus: | Selenochlamys Boettger, 1883[1] |
| Type species | |
| Selenochlamys pallida Boettger, 1883
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Species edit
Species within the genus Selenochlamys include:[3]
- Selenochlamys pallida Boettger, 1883 - the type species
- Selenochlamys ysbryda Rowson & Symondson, 2008[4]
References edit
- ^ (in German) Boettger O. (1883). "Siebentes Verzeichnis von Mollusken der Kaukasusländer, nach Sendungen des Hrn. Hans Leder, z. Z. in Helenendorf bei Elisabetpol (Transkaukasien)". Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 10: 135-198, Taf. 4-7. Frankfurt am Main.
- ^ Neiber, Marco T.; Walther, Frank; Hausdorf, Bernhard (October 2020). "Phylogenetic relationships of ghost slugs (Selenochlamys) and overlooked instances of limacization in Western Palaearctic Limacoidei (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 151: 106897. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106897.
- ^ Species in genus Selenochlamys. AnimalBase, accessed 21 April 2009.
- ^ Rowson B. & Symondson O. C. (2008) "Selenochlamys ysbryda sp. nov. from Wales, UK: a Testacella-like slug new to western Europe (Stylommatophora: Trigonochlamydidae)". Journal of Conchology 39(5): 537-552. abstract.