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.
It includes: