Parmacella tenerifensis

Drusia tenerifensis
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Parmacellidae
Genus:	Parmacella
Species:	P. tenerifensis
Binomial name
Parmacella tenerifensis Alonso, Ibanez & Diaz, 1985[2]

Parmacella tenerifensis is a species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae.

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

This species is brown in color.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the area east of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in Tenerife, Canary Islands.[4]

Ecology

This species inhabits ruderal biotopes.[4]

References

1. "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Drusia tenerifensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 21 November 2016.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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

• 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.