Daudebardia rufa is the type species of the genus Daudebardia.[3] This species is a predatorycarnivore.
Description
The length of the body 16–20 mm (0.63–0.79 in).[4] 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 three 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 (0.22 in).[5]
^2017 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 09 September 2021.
^Draparnaud, J.-P.-R. (1805). Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Ouvrage posthume. Avec XIII planches. - pp. [1-9], j-viij [= 1-8], 1-134, [Pl. 1-13]. Paris, Montpellier. (Plassan, Renaud).
^Kerney M. P., Cameron A. D. & Jungbluth J. H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg and Berlin, ISBN3-490-17918-8, page 174.
^Tryon G. W. (1885). Manual of Conchology; structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. (2)1: 12.