Pallifera

Pallifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Arionoidea
Family: Philomycidae
Genus: Pallifera
E. S. Morse, 1864

Pallifera is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Philomycidae.

Species

Species include:[1]

Cladogram

A cladogram based on sequences of cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of genera in the family Philomycidae by Tsai & Wu (2008)[2] (simplified):





 Meghimatium 







 Philomycus 



 Pallifera 




 Megapallifera 




 Arion 






 Deroceras 




Arion and Deroceras were used as outgroup.[2]

References

  1. Pallifera. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  2. 1 2 Tsai C.-L. & Wu S.-K. (2008). A new Meghimatium slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 47(6): 759-766. PDF.


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