#Heterobranchs

[rattyexplores]

Caribbean Leatherleaf Slug.

30/07/23 - Gastropoda: Sarasinula plebeia

QLD:WET - El Arish, remnant vegetation on farmland

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

For snails, traveling long distances can be a bit of a challenge due to their size and extremely slow speed. Fortunatelly, snails in the genus Physa have found a workaround! In early February, about 20-30 snails will attach themselves to the wings of an upland sandpiper and hitch a ride south with the bird's migration.

(Images: The freshwater snail Physa acuta and its temporary host the upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) by David Liebman and Nick Varvel respectively)

[herpsandbirds]

Green Grapes Sea Slug (Sacoproteus smaragdinus), family Limapontiidae, Tulamben, Bali, Indoneisa

photograph by Gede Ardha

[naivecoquille]

Fishion # 7 : Micromelo Undatus, the glimmeriest, sparkliest sea snail ! (unless not, seems the competition on sparkles and glitter is fierce among sea mollusks).

It's not a nudibranch, but a close cousin, i tried to situate it in the taxonomy (hope i didn't make a mistake there). Search its name and revel in its glory !

[nature-and-biodiversity-blog]

Miniature Melo Micromelo undatus Source: Here

[typhlonectes]

GASTROPOD GEEKERY:

Annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs from Laos (Mollusca, Gastropoda)

The land area of Laos is composed of a large variety of undisturbed habitats, such as high mountainous areas, huge limestone karsts and the lower Mekong Basin. Therefore, Laos is expected to have a high species diversity, especially for the land snails. However, with respect to research on malacology, Laos is probably the least well-researched area for land snail diversity in Indochina (including Laos) over the past few centuries.

The handful of species lists have never been systematically revised from the colonial period to the present, so these classifications are outdated. Herein we present the first comprehensive annotated checklist with an up-to-date systematic framework of the land snail fauna in Laos based on both field investigations and literature surveys. This annotated checklist is collectively composed of 231 nominal species (62 ‘prosobranch’ and 169 heterobranches), of which 221 nominal species are illustrated...

Read more: https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/28800/

[tangledwing]

Flabellina polaris is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusca in the family Flabellinidae.

[rattyexplores]

Beautiful sea hare found in a shallow tidepool.

06/11/23 - Aplysia reticulata

QLD:WET - Etty Bay

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Most slugs can't move around very well-- but that doesn't mean they don't give it their best shot! Jumping slugs, members of the Hemphillia genus, are named for the intense, dance-like wriggles they perform when threatened. It's not much of a jump, but it's pretty impressive considering they don't even have feet.

Check out the demonstration below:

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[rattyexplores]

Sea hares found on the shores of Woppa. These fat little slugs littered the beach whilst the tide was out, young beachgoers often playing with them.

I'm used to seeing slugs inside tidepools, so this was certainly a shock to me. The slugs only had the soft, loose sand to grab onto, and were often found high up on the shore, presumably feeding on the brown algae which had washed up. The slugs would let the waves carry them, with seemingly little thought of where they actually ended up.

When the tide rose again, the slugs would've been carried out to sea, waiting for the next chance to feed on algae.

13/09/23 - Bursatella ocelligera

QLD:CQC, Woppa (Great Keppel Island), ocean shore (low tide)

[rattyexplores]

Common Garden Snail

Cornu aspersum

23/03/23 - NSW, Berrima

[rattyexplores]

Giant Leopard Slug

Another invertebrate that shocked me with its size.

Limax maximus

23/03/23 - NSW, Berrima

[rattyexplores]

Threeband Slugs Attracted to Cat Food

Unidentified, genus Ambigolimax

24/03/23 - NSW

[rattyexplores]

Australian Prism Slug

30/07/23 - Gastropoda: Atopos australis

QLD:WET - El Arish, remnant vegetation on farmland

[rattyexplores]

The Common Garden Snail

Found a large gathering underneath some bark.

Cornu aspersum

22/03/23

[rattyexplores]

Gastropoda: Architectonica perdix

Gastropoda: Bembicium nanum

Gastropoda: Diodora singaporensis

Bivalvia: Spondylus sp.

Gastropoda: Triphoridae sp.

Bivalvia: Pteria sp.

Bivalvia: Lamarcka avellana

Gastropoda: Turritella terebra

Various shells collected in the Yeppoon area.

16/05/23 - Yeppoon shores