Testacella maugei
| Testacella maugei | |
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| Testacella maugei in the contracted state. The small shell of the animal is visible on the posterior end, here on the left. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Testacelloidea |
| Family: | Testacellidae |
| Genus: | Testacella |
| Species: | T. maugei |
| Binomial name | |
| Testacella maugei Férussac, 1819.[1] | |
Testacella maugei is a species of air-breathing, carnivorous land slug, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Testacellidae, the shelled slugs. [2]
Description
On back and sides brownish and darker, with some brown and yellowish spots, near the foot yellowish with greenish or orange hue.The shape is conical when crawling (anterior part wider than posterior part, posterior part truncated). The points of origin of the lateral grooves about 5 mm apart at mantle, not joined. Sole yellowish. The shell rudiment is located on the posterior section of dorsum, almost parallel and large, with its apex pointing downwards and the basal end of the aperture pointing upside. It is greenish or brownish with 2 whorls and a keeled suture. Animal 6–12 cm, shell 13-17 x 7-11 x 3.5-3.5 (height) mm.[3]
Distribution
Morocco (Atlantic coast) Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Portugal, Spain, Channel Islands, France (Atlantic coast) and the British Isles (Britain and Ireland)[4]
References
- ↑ Férussac, A. E. J. P. J. F. d'Audebard de & Deshayes, G.-P. 1819-1851. Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, tant des espèces que l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés d'après les caractères essentiels que présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles. - pp. Tome 1: 8 + 184 pp.; Tome 2 (1): [1-3], 1-402; 2 (2): 1-260, 1-22, [1-2], i-xvi [= 1-16]; Atlas 1: 70 pl.; Atlas 2: 166 + 5 pl.J.-B. Bailliere, Paris.
- ↑ Marshall, B. (2014). Testacella maugei Férussac, 1819. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=819975 on 2014-11-06
- ↑ Animalbase (Welter-Schultes)
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
External links
- AnimalBaseTestacella maugei Distribution, biology, image
- Testacella maugei images at Encyclopedia of Life