Arion vejdorskyi

Taxobox
name = "Arion vejdorskyi"
status = DD | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Stylommatophora
familia = Arionidae
genus = "Arion"
species = "A. vejdorskyi"
binomial = "Arion vejdorskyi"
binomial_authority =
synonyms =

"Arion vejdorskyi" or "Arion vejdowskyi" is a taxon with unclear taxonomic position and probably a synonym for other species. [Wiktor, A. 1996. The slugs of the former Yugoslavia (Gastropoda terrestria nuda - Arionidae, Milacidae, Limacidae, Agriolimacidae). - Annales Zoologici 46 (1-2): 1-110. Warszawa, page 16.] [http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/speciestaxon?id=14638] It was described as a species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.

Synonyms

This slug was described from the Czech Republic by J. Babor & J. Košťál in 1893 in Jarov near Závist as "Arion" ("Microarion") "vejdovskýi" J. Babor & J. Košťál, 1893. [Babor J. F. & Košťál J. 1893 "Note sur une espèce nouvelle d'Arion" Věštník Královské české společnosti nauk (Třída mathematicko-přírodovědná), Praha, (3):1-4.]

It is also mentioned in other works:
* "Arion" ("Microarion") "vejdovskýi" J. Babor & J. Košťál, 1893 [Uličný J. 1892-1895 Měkkýši čeští. Praha, 208 pp.] [(in Czech) Ložek, V. (1956) Klíč československých měkkýšů. - Vydav. Slov. akad. vied SAV, Bratislava, 425 pp., page 180.]
* "Arion vejdowskyi" Babor & Kostal, 1893 [http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/speciestaxon?id=14638 cited 15 August 2008] [http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=275979] [http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id268635/]
* "Arion vejdorskyi" [Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/2108/all Arion vejdorskyi] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 18 July 2007.] [http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=275979 cited in 15 August 2008] [http://cksl.wz.cz/cervena_kniha_cr.html cited in 15 August 2008]

Distribution

This slug was described from the Czech Republic.

It is not mentioned in recent lists of molluscs recorded in the Czech Republic [Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.] [(in Czech with English summary) Beran L., Juřičková L. & Horsák M. (2005) Mollusca (měkkýši), pp. 69-74. – In: Farkač J., Král D. & Škorpík M. [eds.] , Červený seznam ohrožených druhů České republiky. Bezobratlí. Red list of threatened species in the Czech Republic. Invertebrates. – Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR, Praha, 760 pp.] [Juřičková L., Horsák M., Beran L. & Dvořák L. (Last update: 30 May 2007) Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/checklist.htm] but it is still mentioned in various internet pages and in databases (see above for references).

It is an endangered species, occurring on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species with the mention DD (Data Deficient).

Biotope

* wetland woods with alder ("Alnus") [(in Czech) Ložek, V. (1956) Klíč československých měkkýšů. - Vydav. Slov. akad. vied SAV, Bratislava, 425 pp., page 180.]

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