Limacus flavus at Isaacs, ACT

2 Yellow Cellar Slug at Isaacs, ACT

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Identification history

Limacus flavus	15 Dec 2020	tpreston
Limacus flavus	14 Dec 2020	tpreston
Lehmannia flava	10 Dec 2020	tpreston
Gastropoda sp. (class)	13 Feb 2020	michaelb
Gastropoda sp. (class)	19 Jan 2020	michaelb
Limax maximus	18 Jan 2020	galah681

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Author's notes

These slugs get into my worm farm. Are they carnivorous?

4 comments

michaelb wrote:

19 Jan 2020

The colour of this specimen is not typical of Limax maximus.

tpreston 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

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.

tpreston 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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