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Pacific banana slugs
cue the music.. weird fact, banana slugs are true hermaphrodites, so both of them will leave this assignation fertilized. Fun fact - there's a lot of them in the Redwoods... the ranger station had a tally board and one person had just set a new record for most reported sightings in a day (they were an employee and had gone out on a day off just to count slugs..) with almost 300 - I believe it was either 276 or 278 that they'd seen. I'd only counted 27 myself.
Ariolimax columbianus is the second largest land slug in the world. Adults range from 15-20cm in length. Some have been recorded at 25.4 cm! Augustus A. Gould first gave these soft bodied invertebrates a scientific name in 1851. Some of the first studies were conducted along the Columbia River; hence the species name A. columbianus (Harper 1988). Gastropoda describes the banana slugs stomach-foot or muscular-foot, which allows them to slowly crawl on a series of muscular waves (Denny 1980). Pulmonata.. more
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