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Orange-banded slug - Arion fasciatus Spotted in a small rain-water stream on Vitosha mountain. Invasive species, first recorded in Bulgaria in 1999. I faced serious problems identifying the mollusks I have photographed, but recently a Bulgarian malacologist I. Dedov joined one of my FB groups and helped to identify them. Air-breathing land slugs,Animal,Animalia,Arion fasciatus,Arionidae,Arionoidea,Bistrishko Branishte Nature Reserve,Bulgaria,Europe,Gastropoda,Geotagged,Mollusca,Nature,Orange-banded slug,Vitosha Mountain Nature Park,Wildlife,Winter Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Orange-banded slug - Arion fasciatus

Spotted in a small rain-water stream on Vitosha mountain. Invasive species, first recorded in Bulgaria in 1999. I faced serious problems identifying the mollusks I have photographed, but recently a Bulgarian malacologist I. Dedov joined one of my FB groups and helped to identify them.

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The Orange-banded Arion

''Arion fasciatus'', also known by its common name the Orange-banded Arion, is a species of air-breathing, completely shell-less, land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the round-back slugs, first described by Sven Nilsson in 1823.

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Similar species: Land Snails And Slugs
Species identified by Jivko Nakev
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By Jivko Nakev

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Uploaded Sep 9, 2016. Captured Mar 12, 2016 12:10 in ul. "Stefan Stambolov" 192, 1444 Bistritsa, Bulgaria.
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  • Canon EOS 70D
  • f/8.0
  • 1/125s
  • ISO250
  • 100mm
Captured in the winter. More winter photos.