Testacella scutulum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Testacellidae
- Genus
- Testacella
- Species
- Testacella scutulum
- Scientific Name
- Testacella scutulum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Testacella scutulum
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.
...Testacella scutulum in languages:
- Czech
- testacela dravá
- English
- Shield Slug
- English
- Golden Shelled-slug
- English
- Orange Shelled Slug
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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