2 Yellow Cellar Slug at Isaacs, ACT
Identification history
| Limacus flavus | 15 Dec 2020 | trevorpreston | ||
| Limacus flavus | 14 Dec 2020 | trevorpreston | ||
| Lehmannia flava | 10 Dec 2020 | trevorpreston | ||
| Gastropoda sp. (class) | 13 Feb 2020 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Gastropoda sp. (class) | 19 Jan 2020 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Limax maximus | 18 Jan 2020 | galah681 |
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User's notes
These slugs get into my worm farm. Are they carnivorous?
4 comments
trevorpreston
wrote:
10 Dec 2020
How large are these slugs? What colour mucus do they secrete when poked with something pointy? I think this may be Lehmannia flava (Great Yellow Slug). If it has yellow mucus if
poked with a pointy object then Its Lehmannia flava. If its secretes milky white mucus then it may be Deroceras reticulatum (Reticulated slug), but it looks more like the former.
https://grdc.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0034/198916/grdcbpgslug.pdf.pdf
poked with a pointy object then Its Lehmannia flava. If its secretes milky white mucus then it may be Deroceras reticulatum (Reticulated slug), but it looks more like the former.
https://grdc.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0034/198916/grdcbpgslug.pdf.pdf
galah681
wrote:
12 Dec 2020
The slugs can be up to 10cm long. I couldn't find one to poke it but the ones I turned out of the worm farm were yellow on their undersides. The Great yellow slug would seem to be a likely id.
trevorpreston
wrote:
14 Dec 2020
Ive re-submitted species as Limacus flavus. Same slug, but Australian Land Snails Volume 1 by Stanisic lists it under Limacus instead of Lehmannia, so Im going with the Aussie expert.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.108379-35.360901
- Places Isaacs, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 13 Dec 2019 10:06 AM Recorded on
- galah681 Recorded by
Species information
- Limacus flavus Scientific name
- Yellow Cellar Slug Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Minor Weed or Pest
- Up to 946.71m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Limax flavus
