Slug
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
name for a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in which the characteristic molluscan shell is reduced to a thin plate embedded in the tissues.
Sea Slug Facts
Kingdom:
Five groups that classify all living things...
The banana slug is the mascot of the University of California at Santa Cruz!
Here at the Zoo
We keep banana slugs at our Zoo whenever possible. Look for them at the Insectarium.
The Slug Site - This site features a "Nudibranch of the Week", with lots of great pictures and links to other nudibranch sites all over the world.
A slug takes a short cut over a nestful of reed bunting chicks.
Distribution
Species range provided by WWF's Wildfinder.
The Slug Site
Hypselodoris bullocki (Collingwood, 1881)
Jeff's Nudibranch Site and Coral Reef Gallery
The Slug Site
Nudibranchs of Eastern Australia (South Qld and NSW), Lady Musgrave Island, Thailand, Red Sea, and Australian Flatworms
Sea Slug Forum ...
Leopard slug (Limax maximus)
Brahminy kite (Haliastur indus)
New Guinea quoll (Dasyurus albopunctatus)
Little pied bat (Chalinolobus picatus)
Australian bustard (Ardeotis australis)
Common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) ...
The Garden Slug (Arion distinctus) used to be called the Black Field Slug.
Molluscs
Sea Slug Forum
Crustaceans
Crustaceans have segmented bodies, seven or more pairs of appendages, two-branched limbs, gills and two pairs of antennae.
Genus Internatus (slug snakes)
Genus Ithycyphus (forest night snakes)
Genus Lampropeltis (kingsnakes and milk snakes) ...
Woe be to the slug or snail that comes in their way. Some are probing the mud beneath, and waging war against the leech, frog, or lizard that is within reach of their bills; while many of the older birds run into the woods, ...
He regarded it as a mollusc, being no doubt deceived by the slug-like appearance given by the antennae.
Chemicals; the use of garden chemicals such as insecticides and slug pellets is a threat. They reduce the
natural food available. Also, tiny quantities of chemicals are present in slugs, beetles etc.
I followed it without disruption until it came to a rather large slug. It chewed on the slug--which was obviously too large!--for a minute or so, but it didn't seem to me like it was attempting to swallow it.
Aplysia californica, Sea Slug Forum. Sydney: Australian Museum. December 27, 2005.
Rudman WB. 2003. Ink glands, Sea Slug Forum. Sydney: Australian Museum. December 27, 2005.
Ruppert EE, Fox RS, Barnes, RD. 2004. Invertebrate Zoology.
Gastropoda is the most highly diversified class in the phylum Mollusca, with 60,000 to 80,000[2][3] living snail and slug species.
These earthworm and slug eating snakes stay underground much of the time, frequently using rodent or crayfish burrows. They flatten their bodies when threatened, but rarely bite and are completely harmless.
Other poisons, such as herbicides (weed killers), snail and slug bait, insecticides (flea and tick control products), pesticides (ant poison), and rodenticides (rat poison). Be careful with mouse traps, too.
Adoneta spinuloides Purple-crested Slug Moth
Adopaeoides prittwitzi Sunrise Skipper
Adoxophyes negundana ...
The caterpillar is slug-like. Adults drink nectar from many flowers including the buttercup, butterflyweed, clover, yarrow, and ox-eye daisy. It lives in Europe and North America (from Nova Scotia to the southern USA).
Although adults are mainly herbivorous, few will turn down a juicy worm, slug, or insect. Box turtles have a low metabolic rate, which allows them to survive during times when food is scarce.
Mollusks have variously modified shells, ranging from the large, whorled shell of the whelk to the thin vestigial plate embedded in the body of a slug. Conchology is the study of mollusk shells. (Conchologists of America)
more about cephalopods ...
It has suffered a fairly severe decline in recent years in Britain and this may partly be due to gardeners putting down slug pellets to kill off the snails and protect their hostas and other leafy plants.
The bottom-dwelling, jelly-bodied nudibranch (NEW-dih-bronk) might seem an unlikely canvas for Mother Nature to express her wildest indulgences of color and form. But these shell-less mollusks, part of the sea slug family, ...
This is similar to some slug species which build a shell-like object below their upper skin to prevent drying out. The operculum of some snails has a pleasant scent when burned, so it is sometimes used as an ingredient in incense.
 See also: Snail, Shell, Coral, Sea Slug, Gastropod
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