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A. buttoni are detritivores that eat dead organic matter. Like most mollusks, these slugs have a mouth on the bottom of their head with a jaw that enables them to break off smaller bits of food. Inside their mouth, they have a tongue called a radula that is covered in microscopic teeth to help break down the food even further. Once the ...
Black slug in Northern Poland displaying defensive swaying. The black slug is mainly nocturnal and avoids exposure to sunlight, although in introduced areas, it has been observed to be active all parts of the day and night. It is omnivorous, [17] eating carrion, fungi, animal feces, algae, lichen, and vegetation (living or decaying). These ...
The red triangle slug (Triboniophorus graeffei) is a species of large air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs. This large (up to 15 centimetres (5.9 in)), often colorful and striking-looking species is found in eastern Australia. It is Australia's largest native ...
A slug on a wall in Kanagawa, Japan.. Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc.The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semi-slugs (this is in contrast to the common name snail, which applies to ...
The Pacific banana slug is the second-largest species of terrestrial slug in the world, achieving a length of up to 25 centimetres (9.8 in) [6] and a weight of up to 115 grams (4.1 ounces). [7] The largest slug species is Limax cinereoniger, which can reach 30 centimetres (12 in) in length. Banana slugs have an average lifespan of 1–7 years. [5]
The slugs can be seen by the hundreds on cool, wet, misty mornings. [2] During the day, they hide in the plant litter at the base of the trees. [2] At night, they come out and climb the tree to eat algae and mosses growing on the tree trunk. [2] The slugs climb down the tree trunk in the early morning to hide and repeat the cycle. [2]
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An apple snail, Pomacea maculata, floating and eating a piece of carrot The diet of gastropods differs according to the group considered. Marine gastropods include some that are herbivores , detritus feeders, predatory carnivores , scavengers , parasites , and also a few ciliary feeders, in which the radula is reduced or absent.