Philomycus carolinianus

Taxobox
name = "Philomycus carolinianus"

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image_width = 200px
image_caption = "Philomycus carolinianus" from W. G. Binney, 1878 [Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 63.]
status = NE
status_ref = [IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Downloaded on 06 October 2008.]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Philomycidae
genus = "Philomycus"
species = "P. carolinianus"
binomial = "Philomycus carolinianus"
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"Philomycus carolinianus" is a species of land slug, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Philomycidae.

Anatomy

These slugs create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.Tompa AS: "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 1980, 23:35-42.] The dart of "Philomycus carolinianus" is thick and curved. [http://snailstales.blogspot.com/2005/04/dissection-selection-philomycus.html "Snail's Tales" blog of Aydin Örstan]

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