Lehmannia islandica is a species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae. It is endemic to Iceland and listed as "Data Deficient" in the IUCN red list due to a lack of detailed distribution data and overlap with the similar species Lehmannia marginata.[1]
Lehmannia islandica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Limacidae |
Genus: | Lehmannia |
Species: | L. islandica |
Binomial name | |
Lehmannia islandica (Forcart, 1966)[2] |
Description
The species is occasionally considered a synonym of Lehmannia marginata but is smaller and exhibits a different penis structure being "thickened in its distal section, with a long and pointed flagellum".[3] Like other limacids, these slugs are slim with a pointed tail, and the pneumostome lies is the posterior half of the mantle. The length is reportedly 20 mm.