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Prophysaon
Sign in to saveProphysaon, common name taildropper slugs, is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariolimacidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyAriolimacidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 156
- With media
- 68
- Family
- Ariolimacidae
- Collections
- UAM, CAS
- Recorded in
- United States
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Prophysaon, common name taildropper slugs, is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariolimacidae.
These slugs can self-amputate (autotomy) a portion of their tail, a behavior observed in the species Prophysaon andersonii.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prophysaon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.