Hyalimax


Hyalimax is a genus of small, air-breathing, land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. This genus has no external shell, but it has an almost flat internal shell plate.
according to Tryon
according to Tryon

Species

Species in the genus Hyalimax include :
Tryon wrote about the genus Hyalimax like this:
"Animal limaciform, swollen at centre, blunt before, and tapering behind; tentacles simple; mantle large, central, concealing all but a small opening; an internal shell-plate; no longitudinal furrows above the margin of the foot, and no caudal mucous pit; no distinct locomotive disk; external respiratory and anal orifices on the central right margin of the mantle; orifice of combined genital system on right side of head, halfway between eye-peduncle and mantle."
"Shell large, rudimentary, thin, oval, unguiform, non-spiral. Jaw smooth with blunt median projection and accessory quadrate plate. Lingual membrane with tricuspid central teeth, multifid laterals, and quadrate marginals."