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Prophysaon dubium complex; Papillose Taildropper Slug; (shown with On pinus ponderosa bark with human finger tip)   

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Prophysaon dubium complex
Prophysaon dubium complex
Papillose Taildropper Slug
(shown with On pinus ponderosa bark with human finger tip)
Photographer: Bradford Norman

ID: 0000 0000 1107 0093 (2007-11-02)

Copyright © 2007 Bradford Norman

 
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  • date of photo  Oct 23, 2007
  • date collected  Nov 21, 2007
  • location   Shasta-Trinity National Forest, near Bartle, McClous Ranger District (Siskiyou County, California, US)
  • family Arionidae
  • order Stylommatophora
  • class Gastropoda
  • habitat  downed wood in mixed coniferous forest
  • species associated with this habitat: Human finger tip and slug on Pinus ponderosa bark  
  • notes   MOLLUSK 2007, STNF, USFS: MOOSEHEAD: This was 1 blue-colored morph of an obvisously multi-colored Prophysaon dubium population in the vicinity of the Moosehead Project Area, where Tom Kirk, David Loya, Sandra Brown and myself conducted 10 days of intensive mollusk surveys on the STNF. Prophysaon dubium was commonly encountered but there were very dark papillose slugs, 1 blonde PRDU that David Loya found, and this blue-grey but still papillose one I found with some micro-snails (Pristiloma-Oxychilus sp?) associated with boulder piles.
  • camera   SONY Digital 1.6 megapixels to data card /no film
  • contributor's ID #  BRN-FALL-MOLLUSK-PRDU-BLUE-002-2007
  • From the collection of NRM-USFS-VOUCHERS-2007-2008    Specimen No. BRN-STNF-MOLLUSK-002
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  • photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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  • common names   Papillose Taildropper Slug (photographer)
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