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| Blue-grey Taildropper | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Ariolimacidae |
| Genus: | Prophysaon |
| Species: | P. coeruleum
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| Binomial name | |
| Prophysaon coeruleum Cockerell, 1890
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Prophysaon coeruleum, the blue-grey taildropper, is a small species of slug belonging to the genus Prophysaon, a genus known for autotomy.[2] It is native to western North America, from southwestern British Columbia to northwestern California.[3]
- ^ "Prophysaon coeruleum". Natureserve Explorer. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ^ Pilsbry, H. A. (1948). "Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico)". Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. II, part2 (3).
- ^ Ovaska, K.; Leonard, W. P.; Chichester, L.; Burke, T. E.; et al. (2004). "Prophysaon coeruleum Cockerell, 1890, blue-gray taildropper (Gastropoda : Arionidae): new distributional records and reproductive anatomy". Western North American Naturalist. 64 (4): 538‑543.