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Roundback Slugs
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Roundback Slugs

Arionidae

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.

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9 branches of this family, most-observed first

Arion Slugs

genusArion

Geomalacus

genusGeomalacus

Ariunculus

genusAriunculus

Letourneuxia

genusLetourneuxia

Kootenaia

genusKootenaia

Securicauda

genusSecuricauda

Staala

genusStaala

Nipponarion

genusNipponarion

Carinacauda

genusCarinacauda

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47778.