Arion flagellus

Arion flagellus, also known by its common name (in the United Kingdom) the Durham slug,^[2] is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.

Arion flagellus
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Arionidae
Genus:	Arion
Species:	A. flagellus
Binomial name
Arion flagellus Collinge, 1893
Distributional range in Europe, scientific state of knowledge of 2012

Distribution

This species is native to the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, but has been introduced in various countries and islands including:

• Great Britain^[3]
• Ireland^[4]
• South Africa^[1]
• the Netherlands^[5]
• Canada^[5]

Arion flagellus illustration accompanying the species description