Veronicella tenax, common Cuban name is the steak slug, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Systellommatophora |
| Family: | Veronicellidae |
| Genus: | Veronicella |
| Species: | V. tenax
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| Binomial name | |
| Veronicella tenax Baker, 1931[1]
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Distribution edit
References edit
- ^ Baker H. B. (1931). "Notes on West Indian Veronicellidae". The Nautilus 44(4): 134-138.
- ^ Espinosa et al. (1994): 116.
- ^ a b Maceira D. F. (2003). "Las especies de la familia Veronicellidae (Mollusca, Soleolifera) en Cuba". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(3): 453-461. PDF Archived July 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
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