rhamphotheca: Puerto Rican Semi-slug (Gaeotis flavolineata) This is an arboreal semi-slug. Semi-slugs are relatives of snails that seem to be “half way” between snails and slugs. For example, their shells are very lightly calcified, and in some cases reduced in size. Species often have flaps of mantle which partly or wholly cover the shell - as is the case with this species. (text via: thefeaturedcreature.com)    (photos: Alfredo Colon)  * I want to make a note that slugs are really just snails without shells. They are all pulmonate terrestrial gastropods, and the adaptation of being shell-less has arisen at different times and in different families amongst land snails. Some slugs are even in the same familes as shelled land snails. - paxon

rhamphotheca:

Puerto Rican Semi-slug (Gaeotis flavolineata)

This is an arboreal semi-slug. Semi-slugs are relatives of snails that seem to be “half way” between snails and slugs. For example, their shells are very lightly calcified, and in some cases reduced in size. Species often have flaps of mantle which partly or wholly cover the shell - as is the case with this species.

(text via: thefeaturedcreature.com)    (photos: Alfredo Colon) 

* I want to make a note that slugs are really just snails without shells. They are all pulmonate terrestrial gastropods, and the adaptation of being shell-less has arisen at different times and in different families amongst land snails. Some slugs are even in the same familes as shelled land snails. - paxon


rhamphotheca: Puerto Rican Semi-slug (Gaeotis flavolineata) This is an arboreal semi-slug. Semi-slugs are relatives of snails that seem to be “half way” between snails and slugs. For example, their shells are very lightly calcified, and in some cases reduced in size. Species often have flaps of mantle which partly or wholly cover the shell - as is the case with this species. (text via: thefeaturedcreature.com)    (photos: Alfredo Colon)  * I want to make a note that slugs are really just snails without shells. They are all pulmonate terrestrial gastropods, and the adaptation of being shell-less has arisen at different times and in different families amongst land snails. Some slugs are even in the same familes as shelled land snails. - paxon

rhamphotheca:

Puerto Rican Semi-slug (Gaeotis flavolineata)

This is an arboreal semi-slug. Semi-slugs are relatives of snails that seem to be “half way” between snails and slugs. For example, their shells are very lightly calcified, and in some cases reduced in size. Species often have flaps of mantle which partly or wholly cover the shell - as is the case with this species.

(text via: thefeaturedcreature.com)    (photos: Alfredo Colon) 

* I want to make a note that slugs are really just snails without shells. They are all pulmonate terrestrial gastropods, and the adaptation of being shell-less has arisen at different times and in different families amongst land snails. Some slugs are even in the same familes as shelled land snails. - paxon


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