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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Sigmurethra; clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Parmacelloidea
Family:	Milacidae
Genus:	Milax
Species:	M. nigricans
Binomial name
	Milax nigricans; (Philippi, R. A., 1836)

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Milax nigricans is a species of air-breathing, keeled, land slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Milacidae.

Description[edit]

Milax nigricans is reliably distinguished from Milax gagates only by examining the internal anatomy. The most reliable character is the stimulator in the atrium of the distal genitalia. In M. nigricans, numerous large papillae protrude from one side of the stimulator, whereas in M. gagates, if there are any such papillae at all, they are few, small, and restricted to the distal half of the stimulator. Other internal characters are less reliable.

Distribution[edit]

Milax nigricans is often abundant around the Mediterranean, especially in disturbed habitats: North Africa, Malta, Sicily, mainland Italy, Croatia, Sardinia, Corsica, southern France, Balearic Islands, northern and eastern mainland Spain, Canary Islands. In addition, local populations have been introduced further north in Europe and may persist: southern England, Munich, northern France, the Netherlands.

From the type locality
Melanistic form, found at high altitudes
Untypical spotted pattern found in Moravia

^ Philippi, R. A. (1836). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. pp. [1-2], 1-116. Montpellier, Paris. (Renaud; Bossange, Masson & Besson). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliæ cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. [Vol. 1]. - pp. I-XIV [= 1-14], 1-267, [1], Tab. I-XII [= 1-12]. Berolini. (Schropp).

[1] Philippi, R. A. (1836). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. pp. [1-2], 1-116. Montpellier, Paris. (Renaud; Bossange, Masson & Besson). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliæ cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. [Vol. 1]. - pp. I-XIV [= 1-14], 1-267, [1], Tab. I-XII [= 1-12]. Berolini. (Schropp).

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