Talk:Arion (gastropod)

Identify slug
Is this slug Arion ater or Arion rufus? Thanks in advance. -GTBacchus(talk) 02:13, 9 July 2007 (UTC)


 * This reply comes over two years late, but I wanted to note that you can sometimes guess at the identity of these slugs based on the color, but when they are this brown color you cannot really tell the difference between those two species except using dissection to look at the reproductive organs. And even that is not always conclusive. Some authorities think that A. rufus and A. ater might hybridize, or that they both might be subspecies of one species. Best, Invertzoo (talk) 12:30, 7 October 2009 (UTC)