Genus Milax Gray, 1855

Museums

Regional Maps

• Milax Gray, J.E. 1855. Catalogue of Pulmonate or Air-breathing Mollusca in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum 192 pp. [174].

  Type species:

   Limax gagates Draparnaud, 1801 by subsequent designation, see Kennard, A.S. & Woodward, B.B. 1926. Synonymy of the British Non-marine Mollusca (Recent and Post-Tertiary). London : Richard Clay & Sons xxiv 447 pp. [204].
• Amalia Moquin-Tandon, A. 1855. Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles de France contenant des études générales sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des varieties. Paris : Baillière Vol. 2 646 pp. [19].

  Type species:

   Limax gagates Draparnaud, 1801 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mörch, O.A.L. 1865. Quelques mots sur un arrangement des mollusques pulmonés terrestres (Géophiles, Fér.) basé sur le système naturelle. Journal de Conchyliologie 13: 376-396 [378]
• Barker, G.M. 1999. Naturalised terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Fauna of New Zealand, 38. Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand : Manaaki Whenua Press 253 pp. [87]

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

MILACIDAE: Milax budapestensis (Hazay, 1881) — Altena, C.O. van R. & Smith, B.J. 1975. Notes on introduced slugs of the families Limacidae and Milacidae in Australia, with two new records. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 63-80 [65]

Milax sowerbyi (Férussac, 1823) — Altena, C.O. van R. & Smith, B.J. 1975. Notes on introduced slugs of the families Limacidae and Milacidae in Australia, with two new records. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 63-80 [65]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SE Australia. Native to Europe. S and W Europe, temperate N & S America, S Africa, New Zealand and Ils of the S Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Apr-2024	LIMACOIDEI ("Limacoid clade")	11-Apr-2024	MODIFIED
12-Apr-2022	HELICINA	08-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
06-May-2020	STYLOMMATOPHORA	11-Apr-2024	MODIFIED
06-May-2020	HELICINA	11-Apr-2024	MODIFIED
04-Dec-2018	HETEROBRANCHIA	11-Apr-2024	MODIFIED
03-Oct-2018	HETEROBRANCHIA	11-Apr-2024	MODIFIED	Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri
		11-Apr-2024	MODIFIED