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  2. Mating of gastropods - Wikipedia

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    The slugs crawl in a clockwise direction so that their right sides, containing the genital pores, continually face each other. This circling may serve to assess whether the other is ready to mate; the speed of circling generally decreases as courtship progresses. The slugs then lie close together, remaining in the antiparallel configuration.

  3. Reproductive system of gastropods - Wikipedia

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    Entwined everted penises of a pair of mating hermaphrodite slugs in the species Limax maximus. The reproductive system of gastropods ( slugs and snails ) varies greatly from one group to another within this very large and diverse taxonomic class of animals.

  4. Slug - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Navanax inermis - Wikipedia

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    Navanax inermis, common name the California aglaja, is a large species of predatory sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aglajidae. Navanax is not a nudibranch, even though it somewhat resembles one; it belongs to a more ancient lineage of opisthobranchs called the cephalaspideans or head shield slugs and snails.

  6. Aplysia vaccaria - Wikipedia

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    Aplysia vaccaria, also known as the black sea hare and California black sea hare, is a species of extremely large sea slug, a marine, opisthobranch, gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae. [1] It is the largest sea slug species.

  7. 40 Facts About Animals That Might Make You Look Like The ...

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    The leaf sheep sea slug (Costasiella kuroshimae), also known as the “leaf slug,” is a tiny, adorable marine creature that resembles a cartoon sheep with leafy “ears.”

  8. Flabellinopsis iodinea - Wikipedia

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    This nudibranch displays a stunning set of colors: the body is purple, the cerata are orange and the rhinophores are scarlet. The neon orange appendages on the back of Flabellinopsis iodinea are the cerata which extract oxygen from the sea water they are surrounded by and live in.

  9. Land snail - Wikipedia

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    Land snail is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as slugs). However, it is not always easy to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less amphibious between land and fresh water, and others are relatively amphibious between land and salt water.