Deroceras_turcicum

<i>Deroceras turcicum</i>

Deroceras turcicum

Species of gastropod


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

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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,[2] Slovakia,[2][3] Poland[4] and Ukraine.[5]


References

  1. 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.
  2. 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 (2): 63–71. doi:10.12657/folmal.009.009.
  3. 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 (4): 177–179. doi:10.12657/folmal.013.017.
  4. 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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