Parmacella tenerifensis

Parmacella tenerifensis
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
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]

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

This slug is listed as endangered species in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species,^[1] but it is listed as Vulnerable species in the Red Book of Invertebrates of Spain.^[3]

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.^[3]

Ecology

This species inhabits ruderal biotopes.^[3]

References

1. Alonso R. & Ibanez M. (1996) Parmacella tenerifensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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. Ibáñez M. & Alonso M. R. (2005) "Parmacella tenerifensis Alonso, Ibáñez y Díaz, 1985". page 397. 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.