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Malacolimax tenellus

{{Short description|Species of air-breathing land slug}}

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| image = Malacolimax tenellus.jpg

| image_caption = Individual in a partially contracted state

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Kappes, H. |date=2017 |title=Malacolimax tenellus |volume=2017 |page=e.T171028A1320234 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T171028A1320234.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Malacolimax tenellus

| authority = O. F. Müller, 1774

}}

Malacolimax tenellus (lemon slug{{cite web|url=https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/slugs-and-snails/lemon-slug/|title=Lemon slug|access-date=13 February 2020}}) is a species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae.

Description

The body is yellow in color and can grow up to {{cvt|50|mm|0}}.{{Cite web|url=http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=1273|title=AnimalBase :: Malacolimax tenellus species homepage|website=www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de|access-date=2016-03-29}}

Habitat

This species is known to live in a number of countries and areas:

  • Czech Republic – least concern (LC){{cite journal|author=Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L.|year= 2001|title= Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic|journal= Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem.|volume= 65|pages= 25–40|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283693754}}
  • Ukraine{{cite journal|author=Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N.|year= 2012|title= An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine|journal=Journal of Conchology|volume= 41 |issue=1|pages= 91–109|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264381723}}
  • Great Britain
  • Ireland
  • Pyrenees
  • Croatia
  • Romania

Ecology

File:Malacolimax.tenellus3.-.lindsey.jpg

This species thrive in woodland.

Parasites of Malacolimax tenellus include:

  • Elaphostrongylus spp.{{cite journal|author=Olsson I.-M., Stéen M. & Mann H. |year=1993|title=Gastropod hosts of Elaphostrongylus spp. (Protostrongylidae, Nematoda)|doi=10.7557/2.13.1.1074|journal=Rangifer|volume=13|issue=1|pages=53–55|doi-access=free}}

References

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External links

{{Commons category|Malacolimax tenellus}}

  • http://www.marcosalemi.com/malacolimax-tenellus/

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Category:Limacidae

Category:Molluscs of Europe

Category:Gastropods described in 1774

Category:Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller

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