Arion lusitanicus
Arion lusitanicus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Arionidae |
Genus: | Arion |
Species: | A. lusitanicus
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Binomial name | |
Arion lusitanicus Mabille, 1868
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Arion lusitanicus, also known by its common name Portuguese slug, is a
Distribution
Arion lusitanicus is
Description
In slugs it is often difficult to establish good criteria for identifying species using external features or internal features, as colouration can be quite variable, and the rather plastic anatomy makes diagnostic anatomical features difficult to establish.
It is a rather large (up to 80 mm long) slug of reddish-brown colour. There are two light brown bands on the dorsum and mantle, the right band passes above the pneumostome. The margin of the foot is reddish or yellowish with dark transverse lines reaching into the lateral parts of the sole. The sole is olive greyish with darker marginal zones. The tentacles are blackish.
Genitalia: Atrium spherical and undivided, spermatheca ovoid, spermatheca duct as long as spermatheca or slightly shorter, getting slightly wider near insertion at atrium, epiphallus longer than vas deferens, vagina longer and wider than spermatheca duct.[3]
Taxonomy
The more well known
References
- . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "Arion lusitanicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
- ^ Animalbase (Welter-Schultes)
External links
- Arion lusitanicus at Animalbasetaxonomy, short description, distribution, biology, status (threats), images
- Arion lusitanicus images at Encyclopedia of Life