Veronicella tenax

Veronicella tenax
Conservation status
	NE
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Systellommatophora
Superfamily:	Veronicelloidea
Family:	Veronicellidae
Genus:	Veronicella
Species:	V. tenax
Binomial name
	Veronicella tenax; Baker, 1931
Synonyms
	Veronicella (Tenacipes) tenax Baker, 1931; Vaginula tenax; Veronicella tenax; Filicaulis (Tenacipes) sp.; Filicaulis (Tenacipes) tenax (Baker, 1931);

Veronicella tenax, common Cuban name is the steak slug, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.

Distribution

^ Baker H. B. (1931). "Notes on West Indian Veronicellidae". The Nautilus 44(4): 134-138.
^ Espinosa et al. (1994): 116.
^ ^a ^b Maceira D. F. (2003). "Las especies de la familia Veronicellidae (Mollusca, Soleolifera) en Cuba". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(3): 453-461. PDF Archived July 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.

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