Native Land Slugs of North America - iNaturalist
2017年5月10日 · I have become interested in the distribution of the native land slugs of North America. Identification can be tricky and sources for identification seem to be incomplete, inaccurate, scattered, outdated, understudied and limited leading to …
Slug - Wikipedia
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc.
11 Types of Slugs (With Pictures & Facts) - Wildlife Informer
You’re likely to come across the brownbanded arion, a land slug while exploring the beautiful broadleaved woods of temperate climates. These creatures live in various hiding spots, such as the litter layer, under dead wood, and beneath bark. It’s also an introduced species in America, and you might find it in gardens.
Land Snails and Slugs of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern …
View the image gallery of land snails, which includes both shelled snails and shell-less slugs. Visually identify species by state, region, and habitat. Land Snail Ecology
Land Snails and Slugs of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern …
Land snails, which include both shelled snails and shell-less slugs, abound in The Commonwealth of Virginia, where there are 220 species. Land snails are small, widespread animals that live among leaf litter, plants, and wood, which they help break down to make soil.
Common Species | College of Agricultural Sciences - Oregon State …
The most economically important species of slug (> 90%) in the Pacific Northwest that is most associated with damaging field crops is the gray field slug (or commonly called the gray garden slug), Deroceras reticulatum, Müller. This slug species can be found in cultivated areas such as agricultural field crops, backyard gardens, roadside ...
Native Land Slugs of North America's Journal - iNaturalist
I decided to start making a list of all of the non-native species that often make it into the project in an attempt to prevent from having to remove them. It may be easier to just list the genus. So here we go.
Slug | Description, Families, & Facts | Britannica
2024年11月30日 · Slug, any mollusk of the class Gastropoda in which the shell is reduced to an internal plate or a series of granules or is completely absent. The term generally refers to a land snail. Slugs belonging to the subclass Pulmonata have soft, slimy bodies and are generally restricted to moist habitats
Land Snails and Slugs - Missouri Department of Conservation
Included among the land snails, Missouri has about 12 slug species, in 5 different families. About half of Missouri's slug species are introduced from Eurasia. The following land snails are Species of Conservation Concern in Missouri, which means that they are vulnerable to becoming extirpated from our state:
Limax cinereoniger - Wikipedia
Limax cinereoniger, the ash-black slug is a large species of air-breathing land slug in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc family Limacidae, the keelback slugs. This is the largest land slug species in the world.