Arion alpinus

Taxobox
name = "Arion alpinus"

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status = NE
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Arionidae
genus = "Arion"
subgenus = "Kobeltia"
species = "A. alpinus"
binomial = "Arion alpinus"
binomial_authority = Pollonera, 1887

"Arion alpinus" is a species of air-breathing land slug in the family Arionidae, sometimes called the roundback slugs. In other words "Arion alpinus" is a species of terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk.

Distribution and biotope

Central Europe, Alps.

* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 19 March 2007.]

* Austria
* Croatia
* southern parts of The Czech Republic [Dvořák L., Backeljau T., Reischütz P. L., Horsák M., Breugelmans K. & Jordaens K. 2006: [http://mollusca.sav.sk/pdf/5/5.Dvorak.pdf "Arion alpinus" Pollonera, 1887 in the Czech Republic (Gastropoda: Arionidae)] . - Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 5: 51–55.] [ [http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/checklist.htm Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic ] ]
* French Jura in France
* Baden-Württemberg in Germany
* Italy
* Slovenia
* Switzerland

References