Arion distinctus

Taxobox
name = "Arion distinctus"

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image_caption = "Arion distinctus" from the Czech Republic
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Arionidae
genus = "Arion"
species = "A. distinctus"
binomial = "Arion distinctus"
binomial_authority = Mabille, 1868
status = NE

The darkface arion, "Arion distinctus", is species of air-breathing land slug in the family Arionidae, sometimes known as the roundback slugs. It is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk.

Distribution and biotope

Central Europe.

* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 15 March 2007.]

* Austria [http://ipp.boku.ac.at/private/wf/Check_List_of_Austrian_Mollusca.html Letzte Änderung am 24.10.2005. access 2 March 2007]
* The Czech Republic - least concern (LC) [Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.] [ [http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/checklist.htm Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic ] ]
* Germany [ [http://www.mollbase.de/list/deunam.htm Deutsche Namen für einheimische Schnecken und Muscheln ] ] [ [http://www.mollbase.de/sh/arionidae/arion_distinctus_atl.htm MollBase - Arion distinctus - Garten-Wegschnecke - Atlas 1991 ] ]
* Slovakia
* Switzerland [J. Iglesias & B. Speiser (2001) [http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/67/2/209 Distribution of Arion hortensis s.s. and Arion distinctus in northern Switzerland] . - J. Moll. Stud. (2001), 67, 209-214. ]
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References

ee also

* sibling species is "Arion hortensis"