- Animals
- ›Molluscs
- ›Gastropods
- ›Heterobranchs
- ›Euthyneura
- ›Tectipleura
- ›Eupulmonata
- ›Common Land Snails and Slugs
- ›Helicina
- ›Arionoidei
- ›Roundback Slugs and Allies
- ›Roundback Slugs
- ›Arion
- ›Kobeltia

Darkface Arion
Arion distinctus
Arion distinctus is species of air-breathing land slug in the family Arionidae, sometimes known as the roundback slugs. It is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc. Several vernacular names exist, but it is unclear if they are much in use: brown soil slug, common garden slug, darkface arion, Mabille's orange-soled slug, April slug.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Arion distinctus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 129208.