Parmacella tenerifensis is a species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae.
| Drusia tenerifensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Parmacellidae |
| Genus: | Parmacella |
| Species: | P. tenerifensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Parmacella tenerifensis Alonso, Ibanez & Diaz, 1985[2]
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This slug is listed as endangered species in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species,[3] but it is listed as Vulnerable species in the Red Book of Invertebrates of Spain.[4]
Description
editThis species is brown in color.
Distribution
editThis species is endemic to the area east of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in Tenerife, Canary Islands.[4]
Ecology
editReferences
edit- ^ "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Drusia tenerifensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 21 November 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Groh, K. (2017). "Drusia tenerifensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T16247A85575700. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T16247A85575700.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Ibáñez M. & Alonso M. R. (2005) "Parmacella tenerifensis Alonso, Ibáñez y Díaz, 1985". page 397 Archived 2010-06-19 at the Wayback Machine. 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
edit- 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.
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