Arion owenii

Arion owenii is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.

Arion owenii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Arionidae
Genus:	Arion
Species:	A. owenii
Binomial name
Arion owenii Davies, 1979
Synonyms
Arion hortensis form B

Description

Note. In slugs it is often difficult to establish good criteria for identifying species using external features or internal features, as colouration can be quite variable, and the rather plastic anatomy makes diagnostic anatomical features difficult to establish.

An up to 35 mm long roundback slug. The colour is usually brown with dark colour bands, which can be interrupted (dark dots instead of bands), the sides are greyish. The surface with characteristic very regular and rather sharply ridged tubercles. Tentacles are pinkish brown and the sole is usually very pale yellow but sometimes yellow or orange.

Distribution

This species occurs in:

• Great Britain
• Ireland

External links

• Arion owenii at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
• Arion owenii images at Encyclopedia of Life