• Source: Arion owenii

Arion owenii is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.




Description


Note. In slugs it is often difficult to establish good criteria for identifying species using external features or internal features, as colouration can be quite variable, and the rather plastic anatomy makes diagnostic anatomical features difficult to establish.
An up to 35 mm long roundback slug. The colour is usually brown with dark colour bands, which can be interrupted (dark dots instead of bands), the sides are greyish. The surface with characteristic very regular and rather sharply ridged tubercles. Tentacles are pinkish brown and the sole is usually very pale yellow but sometimes yellow or orange.




Distribution


This species occurs in:

Great Britain
Ireland




References






External links


Arion owenii at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
Arion owenii images at Encyclopedia of Life

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Arion owenii
• Arion (gastropod)
• Arion distinctus
• List of non-marine molluscs of Great Britain
• List of non-marine molluscs of Ireland
• IUCN Red List near threatened species (Animalia)
• Timeline of extinctions in the Holocene