Santa Barbara shelled slug

Santa Barbara shelled slug
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Arionoidea
Family: Binneyidae
Genus: Binneya
Species: B. notabilis
Binomial name
Binneya notabilis

The Santa Barbara shelled slug or slug snail, scientific name Binneya notabilis, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Binneyidae.

Distribution

This species is found only in the United States.

References

  1. Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Binneya notabilis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 18 July 2007.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, April 11, 2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.