''Drilolestes retowskii'' is a species of predatory 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 ...

. It is a shell-less

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 ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

in the family

Trigonochlamydidae Trigonochlamydidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Distribution The native distribution of Trigonochla ...

. ''Drilolestes retowskii'' is the only species in the genus ''Drilolestes''. The generic name ''Drilolestes'' contains the suffix ''-lestes'', that means "robber".Suvorov A. N. (2003). "A new species and genus of carnivorous slugs (Pulmonata Trigonochlamydidae) from West Transcaucasia". ''Ruthenica'' 13: 149-152
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Distribution

The distribution of ''Drilolestes retowskii'' includes northern Turkey ( Vilayet Zonguldak) and Georgia in the Caucasus region,"Species summary for ''Drilolestes retowskii''"
AnimalBase, last modified 14 June 2007, accessed 7 September 2010. specifically on the Psyrtzkha River in

Abkhazia Abkhazia, ka, აფხაზეთი, tr, , xmf, აბჟუა, abzhua, or ( or ), officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, recognised by most countries as part of Georgia, which vi ...

, near the

New Athos Cave The New Athos Cave ( ab, Афон Ҿыцтәи аҳаҧы; ka, ახალი ათონის მღვიმე; russian: Новоафонская Пещера) also Novoafonskaya, Novy Afon Cave, or New Afon Cave is a karst cave in the Iv ...

Description

The size of preserved specimens is 12–18 mm. Live individuals are larger.

Ecology

''Drilolestes retowskii'' inhabits forests and alpine zone.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5307656 Trigonochlamydidae Taxa named by Oskar Boettger Gastropods described in 1884