Megapallifera mutabilis

Megapallifera mutabilis, common name the changeable mantleslug, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Philomycidae. It eats primarily algae, and lives in live trees such as American beech. The species is native to eastern North America.[1]

Megapallifera mutabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Arionoidea
Family:
Philomycidae
Genus:
Megapallifera
Species:
M. mutabilis
Binomial name
Megapallifera mutabilis
(Hubricht, 1951)

References
  1. Paustian, Megan E.; Barbosa, Pedro (February 2012). "Overlap of food and microhabitat preferences among some native and nonnative slugs in mid-Atlantic forests of eastern North America". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 78 (1): 92–99. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr041. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
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