Limacus flavus

2 Yellow Cellar Slug at Isaacs, ACT

Limacus flavus at Isaacs, ACT - 13 Dec 2019
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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 michaelb
Gastropoda sp. (class) 19 Jan 2020 michaelb
Limax maximus 18 Jan 2020 galah681

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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.
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
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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