Pulmonates Gallery

Yellow slug (Limax flavus)

Yellow slug (Limax flavus), a slug from Europe accidentally introduced to many parts of the world. When extended its length can be 10 cm, showing the upper, optical, tentacles that sense light. The lower pair, the oral tentacles, are smelling organs. Japan

Active, Air Breathing, Animal, Animals, Associated With Human Habitations, Blue Tentacles, Eats Decay Matter, Eats Fungi, Eats Vegetables, Europe, Fauna, Gastropoda, Gastropods, Gliding, Hermaphrodite, Hermaphroditic, High Angle View, Introduced To Japan, Invertebrate, Land Slug, Limacidae, Limacus Flavus, Limax, Mottled, Moving, Naturalised, Navigational Aids, Nocturnal, Pulmonate, Retractible, Slimy, Slug, Tawny Garden Slug, Terrestrial, Thin Tentacles, Wildlife

Banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus)

Banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus), can grow to 25 cm long, the world's second-largest slug, second to the 30-cm Limax cinereoniger of Europe. Hoh Rainforst, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA

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Air Breathing, Ariolimacidae, Arionidae, Decomposer, Detritivore, Eyestalks, Gastropod, Invertebrate, Land Slug, Mollusc, Mucus, Pulmonate, Single Lung, Slime, Slugs, Spotted, Tentacles, Terrestrial, Yellow

Garden slug (Arion hortensis)

Garden slug (Arion hortensis) on garden foliage. It is not welcome in gardens but fills an important niche as a decomposer and consumer in forest systems, contributing to ecosystem health. Native to Europe, introduced to Australia

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