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Laevicaulis

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Laevicaulis Simroth, 1913 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Systellommatophora, Veronicellidae) is the valid name for a widespread genus of slugs, including the highly invasive Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822)

Sheikh Sajan, Basudev Tripathy, Robert H. Cowie, “Laevicaulis Simroth, 1913 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Systellommatophora, Veronicellidae) is the valid name for a widespread genus of slugs, including the highly invasive Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822)”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 78, pp. 160-164, 2021.

The validity of Laevicaulis Simroth, 1913 as the objective senior synonym of Eleutherocaulis Simroth, 1913, both published simultaneously in a complex and  confusing work as genus-group names for veronicellid slugs, is confirmed. The type  species, in....

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