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Finger type slug catchers are large in size and can be observed on satellite images. The following table is generated using Google Earth and gives an overview of slug catchers in the world. The slug catcher length is determined using measurement tool in Google Earth and is estimated to be +/- 5 meters accurate.
This is the case in Siphopteron quadrispinosum, where each slug attempts to inject prostate fluid into the other having stabbed it with a stylet, part of a two-pronged penis. [5] The two slugs circle clockwise around each other, each probing and attempting to pierce the underside of the other with the stylet while avoiding getting pierced itself.
Limacology (from Latin limax, "slug", and Greek-λογία, -logia) is the branch of zoology which deals with slugs, i.e. shell-less gastropod mollusks.A person that studies limacology is referred to as a limacologist.
An article published in 2022 [1] revealed this confusion and furthermore showed that the original description applied to a slug species in a different family. The above names are therefore no longer appropriate and care is need to interpret the meaning of earlier usages. [2] The following five species were confused: [1]
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The bacterium Moraxella osloensis is a mutualistic symbiont of the slug-parasitic nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita. [13] In nature, Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita vectors Moraxella osloensis into the shell cavity of the slug host Deroceras reticulatum in which the bacteria multiply and kill the slug.
Costasiella kuroshimae (also known as a leaf slug, sea sheep, or leaf sheep) is a species of sacoglossan sea slug. Costasiella kuroshimae are shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Costasiellidae. [1] Despite being animals, they indirectly perform photosynthesis, via kleptoplasty. [2]
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.