Arion alpinus

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Arion alpinus

Conservation status
NE
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Arionidae
Genus: Arion
Species: A. alpinus
Binomial name
Arion alpinus
Pollonera, 1887

Arion alpinus is a species of air-breathing land slug in the family Arionidae, sometimes called the roundback slugs. In other words Arion alpinus is a species of terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk.

[edit] Distribution and biotope

Central Europe, Alps.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 19 March 2007.
  2. ^ Dvořák L., Backeljau T., Reischütz P. L., Horsák M., Breugelmans K. & Jordaens K. 2006: Arion alpinus Pollonera, 1887 in the Czech Republic (Gastropoda: Arionidae). - Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 5: 51–55.
  3. ^ Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic


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