Green “Leaf Sheep” Sea Slugs (Costasiella kuroshimae), family Costasiellidae, found in coastal waters off of Indonesia, New Guinea and Japan

photograph by Jim & Lynn Photography

Some time ago my good friend @gonebattygoth said that slugs look like tiny cows and I can't stop thinking about it.

Did you know that Chiton (specifically the wandering meatloaf chiton) produce the hardest known biologically made material? Their shells are also covered in microscopic lenses that combine to almost make their body into one compound eye. Why they need to look so much, who knows?

MAISIE COUSINS / "SLUG" / 2015 [archival pigment print | 33 1/10 × 22 1/10"]

Snails in the genus Julia have a bivalved shell, like a clam!

Even though they have a clam like shell, with 2 sections, they are in fact snails (class Gastropoda). Julia are marine snails, found throughout the Indo-Pacific. There are 6 species which are various shades of green. They are tiny, only reaching a length of up to 6 mm long. These snails feed on algae, and incorporate the chloroplasts from the algae into their bodies. Some of the chloroplasts remain photosynthetic, and the snails are able to feed on the products of this photosynthesis. This process is called kleptoplasty.

Photos: Julia sp. from Australia  - profmollusc | Inaturalist cc; Julia exquisita from Reuinion Island - Alexandre LaPorte | Wikipedia cc

mint slug!!

invertober day 4, emerald green snail!!

I know you have your little umbreon/claydol sona you use to represent yourself occasionally, but I just keep envisioning you as some kind of conch snail delicately peeking it's eyestalks out cautiously, before throwing artwork on par with Italian Renaissance painters into the fucking wind

Real life footage of tumblr user canisalbus.

Welcoming Gary, Snelly, Shelly, Rocky, and Turbo to the family with some 'pizza' 🥰

💙 The Lovers 💙

My new favorite artwork haha, I loved working on it so much as I missed drawing slugs :)

Prints are available: https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1555609657/

Asian Green Land Snail (Leptopoma perlucidum), family Cyclophoridae, found in Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, and the Solomon Islands

photograph by scraf

Roman snail ovipositing By: Hans Pfletschinger From: Natural History Magazine 1977

The Horrid Dorid

hey... guess what my favorite animal is... i bet you can't... cmon.... just guess... guess what it is.... have you guessed yet?

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