FIRST RECORD OF THE RARE SLUG SPECIES MEGHIMATIUM BILINEATUM (BENSON, 1842) (GASTROPODA: EUPULMONATA: PHILOMYCIDAE) IN THE JEWISH AUTONOMOUS REGION (MIDDLE AMUR BASIN)

Prozorova L.A., Makarenko V.P.

Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 2016; 20(1): 92-96

A rare, protected slug Meghimatium bilineatum (Benson, 1842) is found for the first time in the Middle Amur River basin upstream of Khabarovsk City. The species is new for the Jewish Autonomous Region as well as for the Bastak Nature Reserve. The slug species is protected in Khabarovsk and Primorsky regions and should therefore be included in the Red Data Book of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Photographs of alive and ethanol preserved specimens of M. bilineatum from the southern Russian Far East are given for the first time.

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