Philomycus carolinianus
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Philomycus carolinianus, common name Carolina Mantleslug, is a species of land slug
, a terrestrial
gastropod mollusk in the family Philomycidae
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s as part of their mating behavior. The dart of Philomycus carolinianus is thick and curved.
Slug
Slug is a common name that is normally applied to any gastropod mollusc that lacks a shell, has a very reduced shell, or has a small internal shell...
, a terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
gastropod mollusk in the family Philomycidae
Philomycidae
Philomycidae are a family of air-breathing land slugs . They are terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arionoidea ....
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Anatomy
These slugs create and use love dartLove dart
A love dart is a hard, long, sharp, calcareous or chitinous dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create. Love darts are made in sexually mature animals only, and are used as part of the sequence of events during courtship, before actual mating takes place...
s as part of their mating behavior. The dart of Philomycus carolinianus is thick and curved.
External links
- Philomycus carolinianus on the UFUniversity of FloridaThe University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
/ IFASInstitute of Food and Agricultural SciencesThe University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is a federal-state-county partnership dedicated to developing knowledge in agriculture, human and natural resources, and the life sciences, and enhancing and sustaining the quality of human life by making that information...
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