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taxonomytournament · 2 days
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Taxonomy Tournament: Gastropods
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Sacoglossa. This superorder is made up of solar-powered sea slugs, which ingest the insides of algae cells. This allows some of them to perform photosynthesis using stolen chloroplasts, the only animals to do so.
Stylommatophora. This order is made up of air-breathing land snails and slugs, including the garden snail, great grey slug, Roman snail and banana slug
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heartnosekid · 4 months
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the dusky nembrotha (nembrotha kabaryana) | source
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onenicebugperday · 8 months
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Yellow leatherleaf slug, Vaginulus taunaisii, Veronicellidae
Photographed in Brazil by rogerriodias
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dozydawn · 1 year
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Fenton Vaseline Glass Snail, Vintage Yellow Opalescent Uranium Glass
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briery · 9 months
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Epigenised (Opal-CT, Lussatite) Helix Ramondi snail fossil, from Dallet, Puy-De-Dôme, France.
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jenfoundabug · 8 months
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Is a chonk. Probably the chonkiest nanner I've ever seen 🍌
(banana slug in Northern California redwood forest)
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mollyvega · 2 months
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Nell the bananer slug has buttery yellow, hand painted silk body. I saw these little guys for the first time in 2019 while on Orcas Island, and absolutely fell in love with these slimy babies 💛
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p-paradoxa · 7 months
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Invertober Day 4: Emerald green snail
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apsciencebydan · 2 months
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Why they are called Shy-Halud
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rongzhi · 2 years
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A sea hare (蓝斑背肛海兔; Notarchus leachii cirrosus Stimpson) by the South China Sea. The purple in the water is ink.
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plushieanimals · 2 years
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bleu bleuet gyogyogyo deep sea mascots ✨
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taxonomytournament · 2 months
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Taxonomy Tournament: Gastropods
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Strombidae. This family is made up of true conches, which have long eye-stalks and move in a leaping motion, and are used by humans as food, or their shells for decoration.
Conidae. This family is made up of cone snails, which hunt prey by launching their tooth from their mouth like a harpoon and injecting them with venom.
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heartnosekid · 1 year
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na.ta.shenka on ig
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onenicebugperday · 3 months
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Black bark snail, Pachnodus niger, Cerastidae
Found in the Seychelles
Photo 1 by juanjo37, 2 by mazzeip, and 3-4 by arkantor
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hurglewurm · 6 months
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saw a slug so beautiful. btw. if you care
[id: a digital drawing of a shiny black slug with a tiger-striped orange foot fringe. it is ambling across a vague background of greenish and orange shapes. end id.]
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humblegrub · 8 months
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this is what going on hikes with me is like
link to original on TikTok
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