#4755 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Western Dusky Slug

🇳🇱 Oranjebruine wegslak ·Arion subfuscus

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Holger Krisp · CC BY 4.0
2. © Cedric Lee · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Todd Norris · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © echinoderm · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © dunnmoons · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Arion fuscus , also known as the "Dusky Arion", is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.

base stats

NL sightings 1iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 31,713iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).