Bielzia coerulans

Taxobox
name = "Bielzia coerulans"

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image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Limacidae
genus = "Bielzia"
species = "B. coerulans"
binomial = "Bielzia coerulans"
binomial_authority = M. Bielz, 1851
status = NE

"Bielzia coerulans" is a species of very large land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs.

Description

This is a slug which is blue when adult and 120 - 160 mm in length. The juveniles are brown.

Distribution and biotope

This species is endemic to the Carpathian Mountains in Eastern Europe.

* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 10 February 2007.]
* The Czech Republic - vulnerable (VU) in Moravia [Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.]
* Poland
* Slovakia
* Ukraine

Biotope: woods.

References

External links

* [http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id2865]