Arionidae

Arionidae
Temporal range: Miocene–Recent[1]
A live individual of the Spanish slug Arion vulgaris, in the wild
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Arionoidea
Family: Arionidae
J.E. Gray, 1840[2]
Synonyms

Tetraspididae Hagenmüller, 1885

Arionidae, common name the "roundback slugs" or "round back slugs" are a taxonomic family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arionoidea.

  1. ^ "Family summary for Arionidae". AnimalBase, last change 12-06-2009, accessed 4 August 2010.
  2. ^ Gray, J.E. (1840). "[Shells of molluscous animals]". Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum (42 ed.). London: British Museum. p. 148.