Limax maximus
European Giant Gardenslug
Linnaeus, 1758Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 819992 ↗
104
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1956
First collected
2026
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
In the Library
Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Limax maximus, most mentions first.
2003
Invertebrate survey of Hakalau National Wildlife Refuge, HawaiiHowarth, F.G., D. Preston, F. Moretzsohn & M. McShane · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages
1997
Catalog and bibliography of the nonindigenous nonmarine snails and slugs of the Hawaiian IslandsCowie, R.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages
1996
Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1996: SupplementEvenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages
1998
Patterns of introduction of non-indigenous non-marine snails and slugs in the Hawaiian IslandsCowie, R.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages
2024
A natural history survey of North Halawa Valley, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Cultural and Environmental Sciences 5, 84 ppPolhemus, D.A., Howarth, F.G.& Miller, S.E. (editors) · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page
Where Bishop collected it
3 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.
Two centuries of collecting
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1956 by W.H. Meinecke; W.H. Meinecke (Hawaiʻi Island).



