A brown, mottled slug with a small, shiny pale shell under the top of the mantle sits on an orange leaf. On top of the body, the skin of the slug wraps around the edges of a smooth shell that is flat and about one quarter the length of the body, before the body ends in a short tail.

A brown, mottled slug with a small, shiny pale shell under the top of the mantle sits on an orange leaf. On top of the body, the skin of the slug wraps around the edges of a smooth shell that is flat and about one quarter the length of the body, before the body ends in a short tail.

A brown, mottled slug with a small, shiny pale shell under the top of the mantle sits on an orange leaf. On top of the body, the skin of the slug wraps around the edges of a smooth shell that is flat and about one quarter the length of the body, before the body ends in a short tail.

All he wants for Christmas is a shell....or no shell...just something decisive, OK? 🥺

#semislug (or #semisnail?)
#Ariophantidae cf #Parmarion martensi