Daudebardia rufa

Daudebardia rufa
Conservation status
	NE
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)

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.

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

^ 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 13 August 2008.
^ 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).
^ "Genus summary for Daudebardia". AnimalBase, last modified 9 January 2009, accessed 3 May 2011.
^ 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.
^ Tryon G. W. (1885). Manual of Conchology; structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. (2)1: 12.
^ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.

External links

"Species summary for Daudebardia rufa". AnimalBase

[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.

[Kerney_1983-4] 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] (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.

[Balashov-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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