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title: "Garden Arion"
description: "Arion hortensis — Other animals. Arion hortensis, also known by its common name the \"garden slug\", \"small striped slug\" or \"black field slug\" is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/garden-arion
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Garden Arion

> Arion hortensis — Other animals. Arion hortensis, also known by its common name the "garden slug", "small striped slug" or "black field slug" is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.

- Scientific name: *Arion hortensis*
- Category: `other` (Other animals)
- Habitats: `urban` (Towns & gardens)
- iNaturalist observations: 6712
- Wikidata: [Q1136612](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1136612)
- iNaturalist taxon: [143042](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/143042)

## Names

- en: Garden Arion
- de: Garten-Wegschnecke
- fr: Limace des jardins
- nl: Zwarte wegslak

## Countries with the most observations

US (711), CA (106), NZ (83), GB (71), FR (51), DE (36), BE (13), AU (9), CH (6), PL (6), CZ (4), LU (4)

## Summary

Arion hortensis, also known by its common name the "garden slug", "small striped slug" or "black field slug" is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.
In Britain, the name Arion hortensis was previously applied to a species complex, consisting of this species plus Arion distinctus Mabille, 1868 and Arion owneii Davies, 1979. Here the name is used sensu stricto.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arion_hortensis

## Photo

![Garden Arion](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/garden-arion/medium.jpg)

Photo: Duke W · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/343706862

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/garden-arion?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).