Common name: Green Cellar Slug, Irish Yellow Slug
Scientific name: Limacus maculatus 綠地窖蛞蝓、愛爾蘭黃蛞蝓
Genus: Limacus
Family: Limacidae 蛞蝓科, keelback slugs, short-keeled slugs
Order: Stylommatophora 柄眼目, air-breathing land snails and slugs
Class: Gastropoda 腹足網, slugs and snails
Status: Widespread throughout UK. It is native to the forests of the Caucasus and Black Sea coasts. It is an effective feeder on mould and algae.
Date: 1st Sept
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44-1 Breathing pore in rear half of mantle. Mantle bands absent. Mantle usually mottled throughout. Tubercles relatively large and coarse.
53-2 Mantle with fine concentric ridges, like a fingerprint. Ridges centred around the midpoint of the back. Tentacles blue-grey (above) or grey.
47-1 Keel inconspicuous, short, petering out well before the rear mantle edge. No mucus pore. Tail without a central pale stripe on the keel (except in juveniles under 20mm).
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It moves really fast.
