Arionidae

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Arionidae
Temporal range: Miocene–Recent [1]
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A live individual of the Spanish slug Arion vulgaris , in the wild
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
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.

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Distribution

The distribution of this family of slugs includes Nearctic, Palearctic and Oriental regions. [1]

Anatomy

Unlike some slugs, European Arionidae have no keel on the back. [1] The caudal mucous pit is above the tip of the tail. [1] The respiratory pore (pneumostome) is in front of the midpoint of the mantle. [1] The body length is up to 250 mm. [1] The mantle covers only a part of the body and lies in the anterior part. [1]

The jaw is odontognathic, [1] which means it is transversally ribbed. Radular teeth include: central tricuspid, lateral bi- or tricuspid, marginal bicuspid, all having broad bases. [1] Teeth are often accreted. [1] The digestive system forms 2 loops. [1] The heart, in relation to body axis, is titled to the left. [1] The kidney is circular (surrounding aorta). [1] Cephalic retractors tend to divide into separate branches attached independently to the posterior part of pallial complex. [1] The shell is strongly reduced in places, most often completely buried in the mantle, usually of loose crystals or plate-like. [1] Genitalia: the penis is present only in some species, epiphallus is present in nearly all of them. [1] Male copulatory organs are generally reduced, their role being taken over by a well-developed atrium and the epiphallus that produces spermatophores. [1]

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 30 (according to the values in this table). [3]

Genera

Family Arionidae has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.

The type genus of the family is Arion Férussac, 1819

Genera within the family Arionidae include:

Parasites

The parasites of the Arionidae slugs include the Sciomyzidae.

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References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference. [1]

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