Species Arion intermedius Normand, 1852

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arion intermedius Normand, N.A.J. 1852. Description de six Limaces Nouvelles observées aux environs de Valenciennes. Valenciennes : E. Prignet 8 pp. [6].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, "environs de Valenciennes", France.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced to South Africa, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

Introduced from Europe.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Detritivore, open forest, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Grazer, tall forest, crops.

 

General References

Barker, G.M. 1999. Naturalised terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Fauna of New Zealand, 38. Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand : Manaaki Whenua Press 253 pp. [48-50] (includes complete synonymy)

Quick, H.E. 1960. British Slugs (Pulmonata : Testacellidae, Arionidae, Limacidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 6: 103-226 (anatomy, ecology)

Runham, N.W. & Hunter, P.J. 1970. Terrestrial Slugs. London : Hutchinson 184 pp. (physiology)

South, A. 1989. A comparison of the life cycles of the slugs Deroceras reticulatum (Muller) and Arion intermedius Normand, on permanent pasture. Journal of Molluscan Studies 55(1): 9-22 (biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		20-Dec-2012	MODIFIED