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Limax maximus

European Giant Gardenslug

IUCN: least concernterrestrial

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.

  1. 2003

    Invertebrate survey of Hakalau National Wildlife Refuge, Hawaii

    Howarth, F.G., D. Preston, F. Moretzsohn & M. McShane · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  2. 1997

    Catalog and bibliography of the nonindigenous nonmarine snails and slugs of the Hawaiian Islands

    Cowie, R.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  3. 1996

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1996: Supplement

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  4. 1998

    Patterns of introduction of non-indigenous non-marine snails and slugs in the Hawaiian Islands

    Cowie, R.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  5. 2024

    A natural history survey of North Halawa Valley, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Cultural and Environmental Sciences 5, 84 pp

    Polhemus, D.A., Howarth, F.G.& Miller, S.E. (editors) · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

3 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1950s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1956 by W.H. Meinecke; W.H. Meinecke (Hawaiʻi Island).

From the collection

Limax maximus, 206307Limax maximus, 206265Limax maximus, 206264Limax maximus, 6060