Laevicaulis haroldi

Taxobox
name = Purcell's hunter slug


status = EN | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Stylommatophora
familia = Veronicellidae
genus = "Laevicaulis"
species = "L. haroldi"
binomial = "Laevicaulis haroldi"
binomial_authority = Dundee, 1980
synonyms =

Purcell's hunter slug, "Laevicaulis haroldi", is a species of primitive, air-breathing, tropical land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.

Dsitribution

This slug is endemic to South Africa.

Conservation status

This species is endangered; it is threatened by habitat loss.

ource

* Herbert, D.G. 2000. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/40089/all Laevicaulis haroldi] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 07 August 2007.