Species: Prophysaon coeruleum
Blue-gray Taildropper
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Arionidae
Genus
Prophysaon
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Blue-grey Taildropper Slug - limace-prophyse bleu-gris
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Invertebrates - Mollusks - Terrestrial Snails
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Mollusca - Gastropoda - Stylommatophora - Arionidae - Prophysaon
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
A snail.
Habitat Type Description
Terrestrial
Migration
false - false - false - Dispersal abilities very limited, tens of hundreds of meters per generation (Wilke and Duncan, 2004).
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Fungi found to be most common (90%) among food items (including fungi, vascular plant material, lichens, and imperfect fungi) although more plant material ingested in spring than in fall (McGraw et al., 2002).
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G3G4
Global Status Last Reviewed
2010-04-21
Global Status Last Changed
2006-05-11
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
D - 1000-5000 square km (about 400-2000 square miles) - D - It ranges from southern British Columbia south to Puget Lowlands in Washington and through the Cascade Range into Oregon and northern California (COSEWIC, 2006). This includes the Coast Range, Oregon and Washington Cascades, Puget Trough, Klamath Mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California, western Idaho and southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Wilke and Duncan, 2004).
Global Range Code
D
Global Range Description
1000-5000 square km (about 400-2000 square miles)