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Field Notes

Description:

10 cm slugl with a bright orange color.

Habitat:

Forest, mossy ground.

Species ID Suggestions

Spanish slug

Arion vulgaris

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FelixPell
2

Red Slug

Arion rufus

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FaredinAliyevski
3

Comments (26)
Liana
Great pics Tiz! Thank you for sharing :)
Tiz
Thanks Sergio! It is a bit difficult to find colourful animals up in the Scandinavian countries so I am extra happy for bumping in to this one!
Tiz
Thanks a lot for commenting James, Super-Kate, Christos, Valentinessa and Sir Mac! You are great!
valentinezza
Hi Tiz! I've posted one myself, saw yesterday near Genoa http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/820086003
Tiz
Thank you for the clarification Hema :) I thought for a second there that I did something wrong :) Thank you dear Josef and Sera for your fantastic comments and Fareding for the add. information on the specimen. I am leaning towards Arion rufus myself as you can see in my comment some time ago. But I guess there is very difficult to know for sure. Was a lot of brown and yellowish slugs in that forest too. Ill wait a bit more, just in case someone have any more inputs in the ID matter.
HemaShah
It is an exclamation for something so stunning and incredible!!Thanks for sharing. Otherwise we would have never known about it's existence ,leave alone imaging it!Great work as usual!:)
sunnyjosef
Colorful slug indeed... Great spotting Tiz..
FaredinAliyevski
Tiz, I'm sure you can understand Danish so there is the A. vulgaris in DK http://www.fugleognatur.dk/artsbeskrivelse.asp?ArtsID=2114 and this is the A. rufus; http://www.fugleognatur.dk/artintro.asp?ID=2760&dknavn=&latin=2114 My sugestion was A. rufus because it looks like this species can have that strong red. The other species are more brownish. Just try to compare some photos from google but from respectable sites and not wikipedia :)
Tiz
Hema, what do you mean? Thank you for the other ID suggestion Faredin, The basic research you did Venus. (perhaps it is easy to find in Wikipedia and such, but you did it to support and that is great of you.) Felix and Gilma, I also hope that there might be someone here that are a bit more into slugs and could be able to separate the two species. Interesting to know that they are both in Denmark. If it came here 1997, perhaps it have not been spreading all over the Country yet. Well, well see :) Thank you dear Charlie for your comment :)
CharliePrice
That Slug is just incredible.....fab spotting :)
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
Very destructive according to what I read, but that does not makes it any less beautiful!! Very interesting, but it looks as if both, Red Slug Arion rufus and Spanish slug Arion vulgaris are in Europa, with my untrained eye I do not see the difference.....perhaps somebody here knows the difference and you can accurately ID it. Best of luck, Tiz,
FelixPell
Hey Tiz, it's impossible to see a difference between A. vulgaris and A. rufus. Both of them are living in all european countries (in Denmark since 1997). Look at my page, I´ve got also a nice pic of A. vulgaris ;-) Greets from Austria!
Caleb Steindel
nice photos, and likely arion rufus as faredin says. here is "spanish slug distribution" from wikipedia: the native distribution of Arion vulgaris is not exactly known. Some sources have claimed it originates in northern Spain, western France and southern England,[2] but provided no published references for these assumptions. In Britain the slug was first recorded in 1954,[3] which does not indicate native distribution there. Reliable records from Spain probably do not exist. Moquin-Tandon described the species originally from France without exact indication of the locality, presumably western or southwestern France.
FaredinAliyevski
When i saw it i thought it was my photo :D http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/27843071 Nice, you have visited my land :D
Tiz
Thank you Felix and Hernandez. Felix, great ID suggestion, do you know the range of the Spanish Slug? Is it found in Denmark? Or can it be a Arion rufus?
Tiz
Thank you very much Rob :) I can see that you have a new profile picture, nice to see who you are! Best ones!

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