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herpsandbirds · 20 days

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Red Triangle Slug (Triboniophorus graeffei), family Athoracophoridae, eastern Australia

photographs by Robert Ashdown

#slug #gastropod #mollusk #triboniophorus #athoracophoridae #animals #nature #malacology #australia

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creatureimages · 10 months

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what are they discussing

#snails #slugs #mollusca #gastropoda #stylommatophora #athoracophoridae #red triangle slug #charopidae #slug to slug communication. slug to slug conversation

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crevicedwelling · 5 months

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are there any land gastropods with bright colors like nudibranchs?

plenty, although for shelled examples many are only colorful on the shell and not the flesh.

note that many of these are tree snails, and also many are in peril due to overharvesting for the shell trade

here’s a post with slugs:

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onenicebugperday · 2 years

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Leaf-veined slug, Athoracophorus bitentaculatus, Athoracophoridae

Found in New Zealand

Photos 1-5 by shaun-lee, 6 by saras, 7 by dougalt, and 8-10 by jacqui-nz

#animals #curators on tumblr #bugs #gastropods #mollusks #slug #land slug #leaf veined slug #Athoracophorus bitentaculatus #one nice bug #camouflage

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animalids · 4 years

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Kaputar slug (Triboniophorus sp. nov. 'Kaputar')

Photo by n.weigner

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dendroica · 4 years

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Fluorescent pink slug, unique to Australian mountaintop, survives bushfires | The Guardian

A fluorescent pink slug, found only on a single mountaintop in northern New South Wales, has survived the bushfires that burnt through much of its alpine habitat.

Around 60 of the brightly coloured Mount Kaputar slugs, which can grow to a size longer than a human hand, were spotted by National Parks and Wildlife Service rangers after recent rainfall in Mount Kaputar national park.

The Kaputar fire burnt through the area for more than six weeks from October to December 2019, affecting more than 18,000 hectares of land.

The mountain was formed by a now-extinct volcano, and is home to at least 20 species of snails and slugs found nowhere else in the world. The area has been identified as an endangered ecological community, the first of its kind in Australia.

Some of the fluorescent slugs would have managed to survive the fire because they had “retreated into rock crevices” in the heat, the Australian Museum malacologist Frank Köhler said.

But around 90% of the slug population, which also hibernates in bark and trees, would have been killed in the fire, he said.

Much of the slug’s food sources – fungi, moss and mould – would also have been burnt by the fire, but Köhler said these species should recover relatively quickly.

In coming months the slug might be at risk of being seen more easily in the burnt landscape by hungry birds and mammals, said Köhler, but the bright colour could also act as a warning to dissuade the predators.

#Kaputar Pink Slug #Triboniophorus nov kaputar #Triboniophorus #Athoracophoridae #Athoracophoroidea #Succineoidei #Helicina #Stylommatophora #Eupulmonata #Panpulmonata #Euthyneura #Heterobranchia #Gastropoda #Mollusca #slug #endangered #wildfire #Australia

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slugmoji · 4 years

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kin assign u Large Red Slug from australia and west sea shellos the pokemon !! also hello kitty gandalf ofc

Omg,, 🥺 💕💗💖💕💗💖💕💗💖

And I love Athoracophoridae in general! Red triangle slugs are really cool they come in different colors too like orange, pink, & white not just red and as a defense mechanism they can excrete sticky stuff that sticks predators in place as long as it stays wet (reverse glue bc glue is sticky when dry lol)

#for me 💌#mail #cykas

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herpsandbirds · 6 months

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