Daudebardia brevipes
Small Daudebardie ( Daudebardia brevipes )
The Small Daudebardie ( Daudebardia brevipes ) is a predatory snail from the family of Daudebardien ( Daudebardiidae ) from the subordination of terrestrial snails ( gastropod ). There are " half- slugs "; only the young can still withdraw completely into the housing. The adults wear small, ear-shaped housing on the rear part of the shell.
Features
The housings are flattened and the last turn is greatly expanded ear shaped. It has about 1.5 to 1.75 turns and is about 4 to 4.6 mm in size. In outline, it appears oval, the outer edge of the last intercourse is rounded. It is light yellowish to glass colors, glossy and thin-walled. The surface has fine appreciation strip. The Embryonalgehäuse is not completely surrounded by whorl. The young animal can retract into the case initially. The housing is then returned in its development, and only as a small cap is seated on the rear part of the shell. The animal becomes a " half- slug ". Sprawled the animal to 17 to 20 mm can be large long. Housing and mollusc are thus slightly smaller than the Reddish Daudebardie. The soft body has a blue gray.
Geographical occurrence, habitat and behavior
The Small Daudebardie lives in the leaves and under stones in damp forests of the highlands, often together with the closely related Reddish Daudebardie ( Daudebardia rufa). It feeds like this prey on earthworms, insects ( larvae ) and other snails. Also, the distribution is similar to this Article, however, but the range of the small Daudebardie has more widespread gaps compared with this kind of. It stretches from North Africa, through southern and western Europe to the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkan Peninsula. In the north of the area of distribution extends to the resin and Südsachsen. In Switzerland, the Small Daudebardie comes up in altitude of 700 meters in front of, in Bulgaria up to 1500 m.
System
The Small Daudebardie was described in 1805 by Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud under the name Helix brevipes first time scientifically. Type locality should be the environment of Überlingen on Lake Constance to AnimalBase.