''Deroceras bakurianum'' is a
species of air-breathing land
slug
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a smal ...
, a
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the family
Agriolimacidae.
Its specific name is after its type locality, which is in
Bakuriani.
Distribution
The species occurs in the
Caucasus:
Georgia and other areas.
The
type locality is Bakuriani in the
Borjomi district, in Georgia.
Ecology
This species lives in forests.
''Species summary for Deroceras bakurianum''
Agriolimax bakurianus lives primarily in the undergrowth of the forest floor. AnimalBase. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
References
Agriolimacidae
Gastropods described in 1912
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