Milax (gastropod)

Milax
1912 drawings of a preserved specimen of Milax caucasicus from the original description by Heinrich Simroth
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Milacidae
Genus:	Milax Gray, 1855[1]

Milax is a genus of air-breathing, keeled, land slugs. These are shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Milacidae.

This is the type genus of the family.

Species

Species within the genus Milax include:[2][3]

• Milax aegaeicus
• Milax altenai
• Milax caucasicus
• Milax cyprius
• Milax gagates - the greenhouse slug. This is the type species of the genus Milax
• Milax nigricans
• Milax ochraceus
• Milax parvulus
• Milax verrucosus

References

1. Gray J. E. (1855) Catalogue of Pulmonata or air-breathing Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. pp. [1-3], 1-192, [1-4]. London.
2. Species in genus Milax. AnimalBase, accessed 23 February 2009
3. ITIS page

External links

• Barr R. A. 1926. "Memoirs: Some Observations on the Pedal Gland of Milax". Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, Vol s2-70, 647–667.