| Arion fuscus | |
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| An active individual from the Netherlands | |
| A contracted individual of Arion fuscus from the Czech Republic | |
| Conservation status | |
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NE[1]
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Arionoidea |
| Family: | Arionidae |
| Genus: | Arion |
| Species: | A. fuscus |
| Binomial name | |
| Arion fuscus (O. F. Müller, 1774) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Arion subfuscus (Draparnaud, 1805) |
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Arion fuscus is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.
Arion subfuscus (Draparnaud, 1805) is considered by some authors to be a partial synonym for Arion fuscus.[2] (For practical purposes the two are synonyms in Germany and in the Czech Republic.)
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This species occurs in European countries and islands including:
This slug lives under fallen logs and under bark in woodland areas, but it also lives in hedges, gardens, pastures and dunes.