Species: Zacoleus idahoensis
Sheathed Slug
Species
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Arionidae
Genus
Zacoleus
NatureServe
Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Invertebrates - Mollusks - Terrestrial Snails
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Mollusca - Gastropoda - Stylommatophora - Arionidae - Zacoleus
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
Slug.
Habitat Type Description
Terrestrial
Migration
false - false - false
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G3G4
Global Status Last Reviewed
2006-02-03
Global Status Last Changed
2002-10-08
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
F - 20,000-200,000 square km (about 8000-80,000 square miles) - F - This species was originally found in the Lower Salmon-Little Salmon River drainage, Clearwater (including Lochsa and Selway) River drainage, Coeur d'Alene (including St. Joe) River drainage, Washington; Adams, Idaho, Bonner, Kootenai, Shoshone, and Clearwater Cos., Idaho; and Clark Fork River drainage, Sanders Co., Montana. Old sites are in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests, Clearwater National Forest, Nez Perce National Forest, Payette National Forest, and Lolo National Forest, as well as on BLM and other lands in this same region. It still occurs at scattered sites in the original distribution and was collected recently (1988-1994) also at a few sites in the Lolo Pass area; Couer d'Alene drainage; and Clearwater drainage (Frest and Johannes, 1995). In Montana, records exist for four widely separated sites in four counties but none have been revisited recently (Hendricks, 2003). Hendricks and Maxell (2005) list about 30 sites in central to northern Idaho (9 new) in 6 counties and 8 sites in 5 counties in northwest Montana. Most recently, it was discovered for the first time in the Ktunaxa Traditional Territory in southeastern British Columbia (which extends from near Canada - U.S. border north to about 50 km north of Cranbrook) (Ovaska and Sopuck, 2009).
Global Range Code
F
Global Range Description
20,000-200,000 square km (about 8000-80,000 square miles)