limax

Updated: May 25, 2025

It is the custom of theatrical managers the lowest order of intelligence, with the possible exception of the limax maximus or garden slug, known to science to omit from their calculations the fact that they are likely every day to receive a large number of visitors, whom they will be obliged to keep waiting; and that these people will require somewhere to wait.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - The Little Warrior

Besides these, a small Onichidium, and a new kind of shelled snail. In the mossy woods live a large, yellowish, black-spotted Limax, and two Helices of middling size. In the bay itself are found a few of the gilled snails with spiral shells; and a considerable number on the outward coast, which is washed by the ocean.

Otto von Kotzebue - A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2