Belly-shaped Hard Grass vs Keeled slug

Aegilops ventricosa compared with Tandonia kusceri

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Belly-shaped Hard Grass	Keeled slug
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Mollusca (Mollusks)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Gastropoda (Gastropoda)
Order	Poales (Grasses)	Stylommatophora (Stylommatophora)
Family	Poaceae (Grass Family)	Milacidae
Genus	Aegilops	Tandonia
Species	Aegilops ventricosa	Tandonia kusceri

Conservation Status

Belly-shaped Hard Grass

LC — Least Concern

Keeled slug

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Belly-shaped Hard Grass	Keeled slug
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Belly-shaped Hard Grass

Habitat

Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, France, Netherlands, and United Kingdom.

Keeled slug

Habitat

Typically found in terrestrial and aquatic habitats including forests and freshwater.

Range

Distributed across Greece, Moldova, Ukraine, and United States.

Belly-shaped Hard Grass

The Belly-shaped Hard Grass (Aegilops ventricosa) is a species in the genus Aegilops. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.