Philomycus
Philomycus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the family Philomycidae, the mantleslugs.[1]
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| Philomycus carolinianus | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Genus: | Philomycus Rafinesque, 1820 |
Biology
These slugs create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Philomycus include:
- Philomycus batchi - dusky mantleslug
- Philomycus bilineatus
- Philomycus bisdosus - grayfoot mantleslug
- Philomycus cardmensis
- Philomycus carolinianus - Carolina mantleslug
- Philomycus dorsalis
- Philomycus flexuolaris - winding mantleslug
- Philomycus pennsylvanicus
- Philomycus sellatus - Alabama mantleslug
- Philomycus togatus - toga mantleslug
- Philomycus venustus - brown-spotted mantleslug
- Philomycus virginicus - Virginia mantleslug
gollark: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html and also pattern matching mostly.
gollark: Options are just monoids in the category of endofunctors.
gollark: mildly nicer.
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gollark: You could have a single `f: &dyn Fn(u64, u64) -> Option<u64>`.
References
- Capinera, J. L., et al. Terrestrial Slugs of Florida (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). EENY-493 (IN891). Entomology and Nematology. Florida Cooperative Extension Service. University of Florida IFAS. Published 2011, revised 2013.
- Tompa, A. S. (1980). The ultrastructure and mineralogy of the dart from Philomycus carolinianus (Pulmonata: Gastropoda) with a brief survey of the occurrence of darts in land snails. Veliger 23, 35-42.
External links
- Philomycus. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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