Deroceras turcicum

Deroceras turcicum
Conservation status
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily: Limacoidea
Family: Agriolimacidae
Subfamily: Agriolimacinae
Genus: Deroceras
Species: D. turcicum
Binomial name
Deroceras turcicum
(Simroth, 1894)[2]

Deroceras turcicum is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Agriolimacidae.

Distribution

It is found in Turkey and the more south eastern parts of Europe (Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, countries of the area of the former Yugoslavia), extending as far north as the Czech Republic, Slovakia[3], and Poland[4][5].

References

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 9 January 2008.
  2. ^ Simroth H. (1894). "Ueber einige von Herrn Dr. Sturany auf der Balkanhalbinsel erbeutete Nacktschnecken". Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 9 (3): 391-394, Taf. 19. Wien.
  3. ^ Čejka, Tomáš; Libor Dvořák, Michal Horsák (July 2, 2004). "Prvý nález slizniaka Deroceras turcicum (Simroth, 1894) na Podunajskej nížine [First record of the slug Deroceras turcicum in the Podunajská Nížina lowland"] (in Slovak). Malakologický bulletin (online). http://mal-bull.blogspot.com/2004/07/prv-nlez-slizniaka-deroceras-turcicum.html. 
  4. ^ Reise H., Hutchinson J. M. C., Forsyth R. G. & Forsyth T. J. (2005) First records of the terrestrial slug Deroceras turcicum (Simroth, 1894) in Poland. Folia Malacologica 13:177–179.
  5. ^ Reise, H. & Hutchinson, J. M. C. (2001). Morphological variation in terrestrial slug Deroceras turcicum (Simroth, 1894), and a northern extension of its range in Central Europe. Folia Malacologica 9:63–71.