mantleslug
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mantle + slug, because of the unusually large protective mantle.
Noun
[edit]mantleslug (plural mantleslugs)
- Any of several air-breathing land slugs of the genera Philomycus or Pallifera.
- 1994, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan: Draft Environmental Impact, United States National Park Service, page 61:
- Carolina mantleslug (Philomycus carolinianus) was recorded by Pearce, Nielsen and Rogers (1992) at Bad Gully, at the top of the escarpment above Beaver Basin in beech-sugar maple forest.
Further reading
[edit]- Pallifera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Philomycus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia