Eleutherocaulis alte (Férussac, 1822)

Gurumayum, S. D., 2021, Mollusca fauna of the campus of Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Itanagar Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, along with two new records, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (2), pp. 225-229 : 228

11. Eleutherocaulis alte (Férussac, 1822)

1821. Vaginulus alte Ferussac, Tubl. Syst. Fam. Limaeea , p. 14.

1979. Laevicaulis alte : Subba Rao and Mitra. Rec. zool. Surv. India, 75: 10.

2020. Eleutherocaulis alte : Mollusca Base, World Register of Marine Species.

Material examined: ZSI/IV/APRC/M-276 (1 ex),

08.x.2019; ZSI/IV/APRC/M-281 (1 ex), 06.vi.2019; ZSI/ IV/APRC/M-292 (1 ex), 23.v.2020.

Distribution: India: Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Throughout the tropical parts of the world.

Remarks: It is a shell-less terrestrial slug commonly known as leatherleaf. It is the most common slug on Indian plains. The animal voraciously feeds on live and decomposing vegetations. The species is being reported for the first time in the state.