Threeband Slug
Dorsal
Threeband Slug
Pneumostome
| Threeband Slug Dorsal | | Threeband Slug Pneumostome | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Molluscs (Mollusca) - Gastropods, Slugs, And Snails (Gastropoda) | |||
| Order: | Land Snails & Slugs (Stylommatophora) | ||||
| Family: | Keelback Slug (Limacidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Threeband Slug (Ambigolimax sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Profile🔎 | ||||
Thank you Dr Kevin Bonham AM for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere It's not possible to separate these into species with dissection. We asked Kevin if this might be native. He said "All Ambigolimax in Australia, and anything else that looks like them, are introduced." When we querried the hole in it's side he said "That hole is the pneumostome or breathing pore. Normal feature." It's so weird that it's only on one side! On another obs, when comparing Limax sp to these, Kevin said "Limax often have well-defined stripes on the tail end but typically not on the mantle. There are a few here and there where the spotting on the mantle forms into irregular stripe-like markings, generally broader than on Ambigolimax. Some other differences include that the end of the tail in Limax tends to be sharply keeled and also the tubercles (ridges) on the tail end of Limax tend to be serrated-looking." | |||||
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