Arion lusitanicus
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| Portuguese slug | |
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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. lusitanicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Arion lusitanicus Mabille, 1868 |
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Arion lusitanicus, common name Portuguese slug, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae.
[edit] Distribution
Arion lusitanicus is native to woody areas in Portugal.
[edit] Description
It is a rather large slug of reddish brown colour.
The more well known Spanish slug was for a time misidentified as Arion lusitanicus, but the two slugs are not very closely related, differing in internal anatomy, shape of spermatophore and number of chromosomes.
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