Daudebardia rufa

Reddish Daudebardie ( Daudebardia rufa)

The Reddish Daudebardie ( Daudebardia rufa ) is a species of snail from the family of Daudebardien from the subordination of terrestrial snails ( gastropod ). There are semi- slugs; only the young can still withdraw completely into the housing.

Features

The housings are strongly flattened and the last turn is expanded greatly shaped earrings. The upper and lower edge of the housing approximately parallel. It has about 2 to 2.5 turns and is only a few millimeters in size ( 4-6 mm). It is yellowish, slightly glossy and thin-walled. The last whorl is only weakly calcified or not completely calcified. The surface is covered by fine growth lines. The cub can still pull back into the housing. In the course of growth, the housing remains in its development and the animal is on the mid- Slug, the housing sits as a small cap on the back of the jacket. Which is surrounded by the end turn Embryonalgehäuse. Sprawled the animal to 2 cm can be long. The soft body has a blue gray.

Occurrence and life

The Reddish Daudebardie lives in humid forests of the highlands in the leaves and under stones. It feeds on prey on earthworms, insects ( larvae ) and other snails. The distribution area extends from North Africa to southern and western Europe to eastern Mediterranean, the Balkans and Asia Minor. In the north of the area of ​​distribution extends to the resin and after Südsachsen.

System

The Reddish Daudebardie is divided by some authors into several subspecies. In more recent work, they are seen as synonyms.