Global InformationAriunculus information
| Ariunculus | |
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| A live individual of Ariunculus speziae, coin diameter is 16.25 mm | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Arionidae |
| Genus: | Ariunculus Lessona, 1881[1] |
| Type species | |
| Ariunculus speziae Lessona, 1881
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| Diversity | |
| 2 species, each in its own subgenus | |
Ariunculus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs. Sometimes it has been considered as a subgenus of Arion,[2][3][4] and sometimes the subgenus Ichnusarion has been raised to generic rank.[5]
- ^ Lessona, M. (1881). "Sugli Arion del Piemonte". Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino. 16: 185–197 + 1 plate.
- ^ Heynemann, D.F. (1905). "Die geographische Verbreitung der Nacktschnecken". Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 30: 1–92 + 2 plates. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.46556.
- ^ Ehrmann, P. (1956). "Vol. 2.(1). Kreis: Weichtiere, Mollusca". In Brohmer P.; Ehrmann P.; Ulmer G. (eds.). Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas. Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer. pp. 1–264 + plates 1–13.
- ^ Welter-Schultes, F.W. (2012). European non-marine molluscs, a guide for species identification. Göttingen: Planet Poster Editions. ISBN 978-3-933922-75-5.
- ^ Schileyko, A.A. "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 15: Oopeltidae, Anadenidae, Arionidae, Philomycidae, Succineidae, Athoracophoridae". Ruthenica. Suppl. 2: 2049–2210.