Want to know your way around a slug? Let's start at the top. Running the length of the dorsal side of the slug is the foot whose bottom is named appropriately, the sole. Slugs; slug anatomy 101; slug gallery New; slug taxonomy work in progress; banana slug New; European red slug; Spotted leopard slug UPDATED;
oregonstate.edu/dept/nurspest/slug_anatomy.htm oregonstate.edu/dept/nurspest/slug_anatomy.htm
It can be useful to know your way around a slug. Check out Slug Anatomy 101 Slugs; slug anatomy 101; slug gallery New; slug taxonomy work in progress; banana slug New; European red slug; Spotted leopard slug UPDATED;
oregonstate.edu/dept/nurspest/slugs.htm oregonstate.edu/dept/nurspest/slugs.htm
Slug Menu General Slug Tips Common garden slug: This probably the most often observed slug. One inch long, dark skin with a lighter stripe along the side. The foot can be either red or yellow. It can damage stems, roots and slither up plants causing much damage.
www.ghorganics.com/page13.html
Land slugs, like all other slow-moving gastropods, undergo torsion (a 180º twisting of the internal organs) during development. Internally, slug anatomy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug
Learn all about our slimy brethren, the garden slugs, through awesome close-up photos of adults and eggs, read about how these guys are put together and how to control them. Gray Garden Slug - Deroceras reticultatum; Live adult slugs and slug eggs photographed at Hawk Hollow Forest Preserve, near Bartlett, Illinois,
www.cirrusimage.com/mollusca_garden_slug.htm www.cirrusimage.com/mollusca_garden_slug.htm
Slug Printout. The slug is a gastropod, a soft-bodied invertebrate without an external shell. Most slugs are plant-eaters (herbivores), but some are meat-eaters (carnivores). The slug is a gastropod, a soft-bodied type of land mollusk that lacks an external shell - they are closely related to snails.
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/mollus... www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/mollusk/gastropod/Slugprintout.shtml
At Oregon State's Slug Anatomy 101, there is a black and white photo of a slug with labeled body parts and a short description. Slugs are interesting creatures. The genital opening and anus are located under the mantle, not near the tail as one would assume.
www.birdsamore.com/critters/slugs.htm www.birdsamore.com/critters/slugs.htm
Layman's introduction to slugs, including how to keep one as a pet. Slug Adventures Slug Hunts...
velvetdragon.com/cyberslugs/realslugs.html velvetdragon.com/cyberslugs/realslugs.html
Studies of slug anatomy have determined that the current slug shape has evolved through parallel evolution both aquatically and over land, deriving from snails (Harper 1988). Pulmonate species of mollusks in the intermediate stages of land evolution maintain shells that are too small to actually protect and contain...
bss.sfsu.edu/holzman/courses/Fall00Projects/bananaslug.... bss.sfsu.edu/holzman/courses/Fall00Projects/bananaslug.html
THE present volume on the Anatomy of Invertebrated animals fulfills an undertaking, 123) and Veronicellidæ, the body of the slug-like animal is very nearly symmetrical; the anus and the lung-sac being situated close together at the posterior extremity of the body. The mantle is large, and extends over the whole hæmal...
aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/Book/AnInert.html
Definitions