Malacolimax tenellus

Malacolimax tenellus
Malacolimax tenellus
Malacolimax tenellus
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 clade
Superfamily: Limacoidea
Family: Limacidae
Subfamily: Limacinae
Genus: Malacolimax
Species: M. tenellus
Binomial name
Malacolimax tenellus
O. F. Müller, 1774

Malacolimax tenellus is species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae.

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Description

The body of this slug is yellow in color.

Distribution

This species is known to occur in a number of European countries and islands including:

  • Czech Republic - least concern (LC)[2]
  • Great Britain
  • Ireland
  • and other areas

Ecology

mating of Malacolimax tenellus

This species occurs in woodland.

Parasites of Malacolimax tenellus include:

  • Elaphostrongylus spp.[3]

References

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 1 March 2007.
  2. ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
  3. ^ Olsson I.-M., Stéen M. & Mann H. (1993). "Gastropod hosts of Elaphostrongylus spp. (Protostrongylidae, Nematoda)". Rangifer 13(1): 53-55. PDF.

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