- Deroceras panormitanum
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Deroceras panormitanum 
This slug is certainly a Deroceras species, probably either D. panormitanum or Deroceras laeve Conservation status NEScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade Limacoid cladeSuperfamily: Limacoidea Family: Agriolimacidae Genus: Deroceras Species: D. panormitanum Binomial name Deroceras panormitanum
(Lessona & Pollonera, 1882)Deroceras panormitanum, previously known as Deroceras caruanae and as Agriolimax caruanae, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Agriolimacidae.
This species is not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [1]
Description
The skin and flesh of Deroceras panormitanum is watery and almost transparent. The color of the skin varies between light grayish-brown and almost black. This species is easily confused with Deroceras laeve which it closely resembles, especially in North America. The two species can usually be distinguished by the shape of the end of the tail, as seen in profile.[2] The tail of Deroceras panormitanum usually slants vertically upward from the sole for a short distance, or even bends backwards. The tail of Deroceras laeve on the other hand slopes forward above the sole.
Distribution
This species was originally probably Mediterranean, where it occurs in different forms, and subsequently spread over most parts of Europe.
As an introduced species it has also spread and continues to spread to many other parts of the world.
This slug is known to occur in the following European islands and countries:
- Czech Republic - non-indigenous in Moravia since 2003[3]
- Netherlands
- Slovakia
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- and others
And in North America: (Reise et al.)
- California 1940
- Quebec in greenhouses 1969
- Washington D.C., 1998
- Colorado 2004 in garden centers and in a park-like area
- And very likely to be present in many more areas of the US
Elsewhere in the world: (Reise et al.)
- Canary Islands
- South Africa
- Colombia
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Tristan da Cunha
- Marion Islands
References
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 10 January 2008.
- ^ de Winter, A.G. 1988. Remarks on the non-marine molluscan fauna of the Azores. 1-2. Basteria 52:105-109
- ^ Horsák M. & Dvořák L. (2003). "First records of the introduced slug Deroceras panormitanum (Lessona et Pollonera, 1882) from the Czech Republic (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Agriolimacidae)". Folia Malacologica 11: 57–58.
- Heike Reise, John M.C. Hutchinson, David G. Robinson (2006). "Two introduced pest slugs : Tandonia budapestensis new to the Americas and Deroceras panormitatum new to the Eastern USA". The Veliger 48 (2): 110–115. http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/abteilung/zoologie/malakologie/malak/hutch/hutchpub/veliger2.htm.
- Wiktor, A. (2001). "Deroceras (Deroceras) panormitatum (Lessona et Pollonera) - a new introduced slug species in Poland (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Agriolimacidae)". Folia Malacologica 9: 155–157.
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