Tandonia budapestensis

Taxobox
name = "Tandonia budapestensis"
status = NE

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image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Milacidae
genus = "Tandonia"
species = "T. budapestensis"
binomial = "Tandonia budapestensis"
binomial_authority = (Hazay, 1881)

"Tandonia budapestensis" is a species of air-breathing, keeled, land slug. It is a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Milacidae.

Description

This slug is a dark brownish grey, with a keel of a brighter color.

Distribution

This slug is native to Europe.

* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 2 March 2007.]
* Austria
* Bulgaria
* Czech Republic - least concern (LC) [Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.] [Dvořák L., Čejka T. & Horsák M., 2003: Present knowledge of distribution of "Tandonia budapestensis" (Hazay, 1881) in the Czech and Slovak Republics (Gastropoda: Milacidae). Malakológiai Tájekoztató (Malacological Newsletter), 21: 37–43. http://www.matramuzeum.hu/Personal/2003_BUDA.PDF]
* Hungary
* Netherlands [http://www.anemoon.org/anm/voorlopige-kaarten/kaarten-per-soort/landmollusken/wetenschappelijk/tandonia-budapestensis]
* Poland
* Slovakia
* The British Isles
* ...

Habitat

This slug mainly lives in secondary, anthropogenous (man-made) habitats, such as farmland. It is a pest in crops of root vegetables.

References

* Janus, Horst, 1965. "The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs", Burke, London