- Daudebardia rufa
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Daudebardia rufa 
Daudebardia rufa Conservation status 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 cladeSuperfamily: 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.
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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:
- Bulgaria
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- and others
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.
- ^ (Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
External links
- "Species summary for Daudebardia rufa". AnimalBase
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