1. Limax is abundantly found in cultivated lands, grandens and moist woody regions. It is nocturnal and herbivorous.
2. It has cosmopolitan distribution but specially found in India, Europe and U.S.A. (California).
3. Commonly known as grey slug
4. Body is elongated and differentiated into head, foot and visceral hump.
5. Colour may be yellowish or brownish or greyish.
6. Head contains mouth, a pair of lateral lips, a pair of retractile anterior tactile tentacles, a pair of long posterior retractile tentacles, each having a black eye at its tip and a genital pore. Eyes are placed at the tips of the posterior of the two pairs of tentacles. The tentacles cannot be invaginated within the head.
7. Foot is blunt anteriorly and pointed posteriorly and is provided with grooves. It is divided into lateral and median strips.
8. Visceral hump is elongated and flattened and pointed posteriorly.
9. Mantle does not extend back behind the middle of the body.
10. External shell and ctenidium are absent. A rudimentary shell in the form of a thin calcareous plate hidden in the mantle.
11. Hermaphroditic.
Source:
1. Practical Zoology Invertebrates by S.S.Lal. 2. A Manual of Practical Zoology Chordates by Dr. P.S. Verma.
