Parmacella tenerifensis

Parmacella tenerifensis is a species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae.

Drusia tenerifensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:
Parmacelloidea
Family:
Parmacellidae
Genus:
Parmacella
Species:
P. tenerifensis
Binomial name
Parmacella tenerifensis
Alonso, Ibanez & Diaz, 1985[2]

This slug is listed as endangered species in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species,[3] but it is listed as Vulnerable species in the Red Book of Invertebrates of Spain.[4]

Description

This species is brown in color.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the area east of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in Tenerife, Canary Islands.[4]

Ecology

This species inhabits ruderal biotopes.[4]

References
  1. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/16247/85575700
  2. Alonso M. R., Ibáñez M. & Diaz J. A. (1985). "A new slug from the Canary Islands (Pulmonata: Parmacellidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 116(1/3): 57-65.
  3. Alonso R. & Ibanez M. (1996) Parmacella tenerifensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  4. Ibáñez M. & Alonso M. R. (2005) "Parmacella tenerifensis Alonso, Ibáñez y Díaz, 1985". page 397 Archived 2010-06-19 at the Wayback Machine. In: Verdú J. R. & Galante E. (eds.) (2005). Libro Rojo de los Invertebrados de España [Red Book of Invertebrates of Spain]. Dirección General de Conservación de la Naturaleza, Madrid.

Further reading
  • Alonso M. R., Ibáñez M., Valido M. J., Ponte-Lira C. E. & Henriquez F. C. (1991) (1988). "Catalogación de la malacofauna terrestre endémica de Canarias, con vistas a su protección. Isla de Tenerife". Iberus 8(2): 121-128.
  • Diaz J. A., Alonso M. R. & Ibáñez M. (1986). "Los pulmonados desnudos de las Islas Canarias. I. Superfamilias Testacelloidea Gray 1840 y Zonitoidea Morch 1864". Vieraea 16: 81-96. La Laguna.


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