clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora Limax (Limas) capensis Krauss, 1848 Ariopelta capensis is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusk in the family Oopeltidae.

Distribution of Ariopelta capensis includes South Africa.

Ariopelta capensis serves as the second intermediate host for a parasite, the brachylaimid trematode Renylaima capensis.

[1] Unencysted metacercariae, usually brevicaudate, infect the kidney of Ariopelta capensis and differ from mature cercariae by only a slightly greater size.

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