| Geomalacus oliveirae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Arionidae |
| Genus: | Geomalacus |
| Subgenus: | Arrudia |
| Species: | G. oliveirae |
| Binomial name | |
| Geomalacus oliveirae Simroth, 1891 | |
Geomalacus oliveirae is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Arionidae, the round back slugs.
Distribution
Distribution of Geomalacus oliveirae include:
- Portugal (Beira Alta)
- Spain (Toledo, Cáceres, Salamanca) - Red List Spain: Sensitive to habitat change (Gómez Moliner et al. 2001).
Description
Geomalacus oliveirae is a slug light with 4 black colour bands, inner bands are irregularly interrupted, main marginal bands sharply delimited against the light background. The length of the body of preserved specimen is 20 mm.
Reproductive system: Genital retractor inserts more anteriorly in the median line of dorsum than in the other species.
Ecology
Geomalacus oliveirae lives in Portugal in Mediterranean shrubland and on granitic substrate, also under Betula, Pinus and Juniperus trees, below 1300 m. It lives in Spain under Pinus and in olive orchards.
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.
- (in German) Simroth H. 1891. Die Nacktschnecken der portugiesisch-azorischen Fauna in ihrem Verhältnis zu denen der paläarktischen Region überhaupt. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 56: , 201-424, Tab. IX-XVIII . Halle. Geomalacus oliveirae is on page 359-360. Table 6, figure 9. Table 8, karte 1.
- ^ "Species summary for Geomalacus oliveirae". AnimalBase, last modified 13 April 2010, accessed 9 December 2010.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Geomalacus oliveirae | |