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Daudebardia rufa

Daudebardia rufa
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Daudebardia rufa
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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: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Oxychilidae
Subfamily: Daudebardiinae
Genus: Daudebardia
Species: D. rufa
Binomial name
Daudebardia rufa
(Draparnaud, 1805)

Daudebardia rufa is a species of air-breathing land snail or semi-slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, which belongs to the limacoid clade.

Daudebardia rufa is the type species of the genus Daudebardia. This species is a predatory carnivore.

The length of the body 16–20 mm. The color of the skin is blue-grey.

The shell is perforate, depressed, transversely dilated, slightly striate, very shining, and corneous or rufous in colour. The spire is moderate and sublateral. The shell has 3 whorls. The last whorl in adults is elongated and is not angulated. The aperture is large and has a rounded oval shape. The length of the shell is 5.5 mm.

The distribution of this species is central-European and southern-European.

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