Daudebardia rufa

Daudebardia rufa
Daudebardia rufa
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: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Oxychilidae
Subfamily: Daudebardiinae
Genus: Daudebardia
Species: D. rufa
Binomial name
Daudebardia rufa
(Draparnaud, 1805)[2]

Daudebardia rufa is a species of air-breathing land snail or semi-slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, which belongs to the limacoid clade.

Daudebardia rufa is the type species of the genus Daudebardia.[3] This species is a predatory carnivore.

Description

The length of the body 16-20 mm.[4] The color of the skin is blue-grey.

Three shells of Daudebardia rufa

The shell is perforate, depressed, transversely dilated, slightly striate, very shining, and corneous or rufous in colour. The spire is moderate and sublateral. The shell has 3 whorls. The last whorl in adults is elongated and is not angulated. The aperture is large and has a rounded oval shape. The length of the shell is 5.5 mm.[5]

Distribution

The distribution of this species is central-European and southern-European.[6]

It includes:

References

  1. ↑ 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 13 August 2008.
  2. ↑ Draparnaud, J.-P.-R. (1805). Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Ouvrage posthume. Avec XIII planches. - pp. [1-9], j-viij [= 1-8], 1-134, [Pl. 1-13]. Paris, Montpellier. (Plassan, Renaud).
  3. ↑ "Genus summary for Daudebardia". AnimalBase, last modified 9 January 2009, accessed 3 May 2011.
  4. ↑ Kerney M. P., Cameron A. D. & Jungbluth J. H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg and Berlin, ISBN 3-490-17918-8, page 174.
  5. ↑ Tryon G. W. (1885). Manual of Conchology; structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. (2)1: 12.
  6. ↑ (Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  7. ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.

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