Tropical Leatherleaf

Tropical Leatherleaf (Laevicaulis alte)

Image Copyright Paul Dunn

Observed: Koh Chang, December 2016
Observed By: Paul Dunn

Koh Chang Nature proudly announces… our first slug identification!!!

The Tropical Leatherleaf, Laevicaulis alte is a round, dark-coloured slug with no shell, 7 or 8 cm long. Its skin is slightly tuberculated. The central keel is beige in colour.

This slug has a unique, very narrow foot; juvenile specimens have a foot 1 mm wide and adult specimens have a foot that is only 4 or 5 mm wide.

The tentacles are small, 2 or 3 mm long, and they are only rarely extended beyond the edge of the mantle.

 

Tropical Leatherleaf Wikipedia

 

 

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