The red slug, also known as the chocolate arion or the European red slug, Arion rufus, is a large land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.
This species is characterised by its (usually) red or brown body and lack of a keel.
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