Vaginulus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, shell-less terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.
Species Species in the genus Vaginulus include: Vaginulus buergueri (Simroth, 1914)Baker H. B. (1925). "North American Veronicellidae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 77: 157-184, pl. 4.Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 Vaginulus rodericensis Smith, 1876 Vaginulus sloanii (Cuvier, 1817) Vaginulus taunaisii (Férussac, 1821)
Synonyms: Vaginulus occidentalis (Guilding, 1825) is a synonym of Diplosolenodes occidentalis Vaginulus sinensis Heude, 1882 is a synonym of Rathouisia leonina Heude, 1882Wu M., Guo J.-Y., Wan F.-H., Qin Q.-L., Wu Q. & Wiktor A. (2006). "A preliminary study of the predatory terrestrial mollusk Rathouisia leonina". The Veliger 48: 61-74. Vaginulus stuxbergi Westerlund, 1883 is a synonym of Oncis stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)
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