Deroceras turcicum

Deroceras turcicum is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Agriolimacidae.

Deroceras turcicum
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Agriolimacidae
Genus: Deroceras
Species:
D. turcicum
Binomial name
Deroceras turcicum
(Simroth, 1894)[2]

Distribution

It is found in Turkey and the more south eastern parts of Europe (Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, countries of the area of the former Yugoslavia), extending as far north as the Czech Republic,[3] Slovakia,[3][4] Poland[5] and Ukraine.[6]

References

  1. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 9 January 2008.
  2. Simroth H. (1894). "Ueber einige von Herrn Dr. Sturany auf der Balkanhalbinsel erbeutete Nacktschnecken". Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 9 (3): 391-394, Taf. 19. Wien.
  3. Reise, H.; Hutchinson, J.M.C. (2001). "Morphological variation in terrestrial slug Deroceras turcicum (Simroth, 1894), and a northern extension of its range in Central Europe". Folia Malacologica. 9: 63–71. doi:10.12657/folmal.009.009.
  4. Čejka, Tomáš; Dvořák, Libor; Horsák, Michal (July 2, 2004). "Prvý nález slizniaka Deroceras turcicum (Simroth, 1894) na Podunajskej nížine [First record of the slug Deroceras turcicum in the Podunajská Nížina lowland]". Malakologický Bulletin (in Slovak).
  5. Reise, H.; Hutchinson, J.M.C.; Forsyth, R.G.; Forsyth, T.J. (2005). "First records of the terrestrial slug Deroceras turcicum (Simroth, 1894) in Poland". Folia Malacologica. 13: 177–179. doi:10.12657/folmal.013.017.
  6. Balashov, I.; Gural-Sverlova, N. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine". Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91–109.
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