World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) - Deroceras laeve (O. F. Müller, 1774)

WRiMS taxon details

Deroceras laeve (O. F. Müller, 1774)

To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 180659)

AphiaID

819966 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:819966)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Deroceras Rafinesque, 1820

Original name

Limax laevis O. F. Müller, 1774

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Original description

(of ) Müller, O. F. (1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. vol 2. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Mölleriana. I-XXXVI, 1-214 pp, 10 unnumbered pages. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12893715
page(s): 1 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Deroceras laeve (O. F. Müller, 1774). Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=819966 on 2026-07-22

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Deroceras laeve (O. F. Müller, 1774). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=819966 on 2026-07-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-10-24 19:50:19Z

created

Marshall, Bruce

2018-06-05 07:28:47Z

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Köhler, Frank

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original description (of ) Müller, O. F. (1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. vol 2. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Mölleriana. I-XXXVI, 1-214 pp, 10 unnumbered pages. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12893715
page(s): 1 [details]

context source (Bermuda) Bieler, R. & Slapcinsky, J. (2000). A case study for the development of an island fauna: Recent terrestrial mollusks of Bermuda. Nemouria. 44: 1-99., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45974319 [details]

basis of record Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]

additional source Barker, G. M. (1999). Naturalised terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Fauna of New Zealand 38: 1-254. [details]

additional source Brook, F. J. (2010). Coastal landsnail fauna of Rarotonga, Cook Islands: systematics, diversity, biogeography, faunal history, and environmental influences. Tuhinga. 21: 161-252., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/tuhinga.21.e34189 [details] Available for editors

additional source Wiktor, A. & Auffenberg, K. (2002). Contribution to the knowledge of the terrestrial slugs of Pakistan. Folia Malacologia. 10 (1): 9–15.
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additional source Rosenberg, G. & Muratov, I. V. (2006). Status report on the terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 155: 117-161; Erratum: 156: 401 (2007)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1
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additional source Cowie, R. H., Evenhuis, N. L. & Christensen, C. C. (1995). Catalog of the native land and freshwater molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands. vi + 248 pp. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers.
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additional source Herbert, D.G. (2010). The introduced terrestrial Mollusca of South Africa. SANBI Biodiversity Series, 15: vi + 108 pp. Pretoria. [SANBI = South African National Biodiversity Institute].
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additional source Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates. [June] [= Pensoft Series Faunistica No 87].
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additional source Wiktor, A. (2000). Agriolimacidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) – a systematic monograph. Annales Zoologici. 49(4): 347-590. Warszawa [29 February]., available online at http://rcin.org.pl/Content/57364/WA058_74192_P255-T49_Annal-Zool-Nr-4.pdf
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additional source Griffiths, O.L. & Florens, V.F.B. (2006). A field guide to the non-marine molluscs of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Réunion) and the northern dependencies of Mauritius. Bioculture Press: Mauritius. Pp. i–xv, 1–185, pls 1-32.
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additional source Bruggen, A. C. van & Rolán, E. (2003). Report on a collection of terrestrial molluscs (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) from central/north-western Namibia with the description of a new species of Sculptaria (Sculptariidae). Basteria. 67: 91–106., available online at https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/597258
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additional source Ramakrishna, Mitra, S, C. & Dey, A. (2010). Annotated checklist of Indian land molluscs. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 359 pp.
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additional source Wiktor, A. (2003). Terrestrial gastropods (Mollusca) of province Madang in Papua - New Guinea. Part III. Pulmonata: Rathousiidae, Ellobiidae, Succineidae, Agriolimacidae, Endodontidae (Partim), Ariophantidae, Euconulidae, Subulinidae, Streptaxidae. Folia Malacologica. 11(1-2): 1-21., available online at https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/47db/93c83192831d5d4c6dea44ab68eb5f2aca6b.pdf
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additional source Espinosa, J. & Ortea, J. (1999). Moluscos terrestres del archipiélago cubano. Avicennia. suppl. 2: 1-137., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44341104
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additional source Holyoak, D. T.; Holyoak, G. A.; Lima, R. F. D.; Panisi, M.; Sinclair, F. (2020). A checklist of the land Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, with new records and descriptions of new taxa. Iberus: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología, (Iberus).38(2): 219-319.
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additional source Espinosa, J. A. & Robinson, D. G. (2021). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Hispaniola Island. Novitates Caribaea. 17: 71–146., available online at http://www.novitatescaribaea.do/index.php/novitates/article/view/250
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additional source Breure, A. S. H., Roosen, M. T. & Ablett, J. D. (2022). Land and freshwater molluscs of mainland Ecuador: an illustrated checklist. Iberus. 40(1): 1-290.
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additional source Regteren Altena, C. O. van. (1970). Notes on land slugs, 16: Deroceras from Afghanistan, including description of D. kandaharensis. Fieldiana, Zoology. 51(15): 175-178, fig. 1a-e., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2823903
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additional source Oughton, J. (1941). Deroceras on Baffin Island. The Nautilus. 55(1): 30-31., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8519929 [details]

additional source Harry, H. W. (1951). Additional notes on the foreign snails of Louisiana. The Nautilus. 64(3): 96-99., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8524363
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additional source Shen, J. (1995). Cannibalism in the terrestrial slug Deroceras laeve. The Nautilus. 109(1): 41-42., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8274187 [details]

additional source Brito, F. F.; Beltramino, A. A.; López-Gappa, J.; Güller, M. (2026). Disclosing the hidden diversity of the invasive slug Deroceras laeve (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 321: 385-399., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2026.02.001 [details]

identification resource Turóci, Á. & Páll-Gergely, B. (2025). Magyarország meztelencsigái [Slugs of Hungary]. HUN-REN Agrártudományi Kutatóközpont (HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research), Martonvásár, Hungary, 288 pp. (in Hungarian).
page(s): 190 [details] Available for editors