Testacella scutulum
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| Testacella scutulum | |
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| Testscella scutulum from a garden in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Testacellidae |
| Genus: | Testacella |
| Species: | T. scutulum |
| Binomial name | |
| Testacella scutulum G. B. Sowerby I, 1821 | |
Testacella scutulum is an air-breathing, carnivorous land slug, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Testacellidae, the shelled slugs.
Like other species in the genus, this European slug eats earthworms, spends most of its life underground, and is rarely seen.
This species is known to occur in a number of European countries and islands including:
- Great Britain[1]
- Ireland
- Spain[1]
- Croatia[1]
- Italy and Sicily[1][2]
- Canary Islands[1]
- Switzerland
- and other areas
pr - penial retractor muscle;
pe - penis;
at - atrium;
ov - oviduct;
bc - bursa copulatrix.
