Arionidae Temporal range:
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A live individual of the Spanish slug Arion vulgaris, in the wild | |
Scientific 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.