Santa Barbara shelled slug

Santa Barbara shelled slug
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Arionoidea
Family: Binneyidae
Genus: Binneya
Species: B. notabilis
Binomial name
Binneya notabilis

The Santa Barbara shelled slug or slug snail, scientific name Binneya notabilis, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Binneyidae.

Distribution

This species is found only in the United States.

References

  1. ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Binneya notabilis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 18 July 2007.
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