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- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - Slug
- University of California - eScholarship - Slugs: A Guide to the Invasive and Native Fauna of California
- Royal Horticultural Society - Slugs and snails
- University of Florida - Gardening Solutions - Snails and Slugs
- University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources - Integrated Pest Management - Snails and Slugs
- Animal Corner - Slug
- University of Minnesota Extension - Slug
- Ohio State University Extension - Ohioline - Slugs and Their Management in Landscapes
- Royal Horticultural Society - Slugs
- West Virginia University - Slugs and Snails
- Penn State Extension - Slugs as pests of field crops
- Marylland Cooperative Extension - Managing Slugs in the Garden and Beyond
- Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies - Slug: An emerging menace in agriculture: A review
- Virginia Cooperative Extension - Slugs in Field Corn
- Missouri Department of Conservation - Land Snails and Slugs
- Related Topics:
- Limacidae
- Veronicellidae
- Arionidae
- Philomycidae
- Rathouisiidae
slug, any mollusk of the class Gastropoda in which the shell is reduced to an internal plate or a series of granules or is completely absent. The term generally refers to a land snail. Slugs belonging to the subclass Pulmonata have soft, slimy bodies and are generally restricted to moist habitats on land (one freshwater species is known). Some slug species damage gardens. In temperate regions the common pulmonate slugs (of the families Arionidae, Limacidae, and Philomycidae) eat fungi and decaying leaves. Slugs of the plant-eating family Veronicellidae are found in the tropics. Carnivorous slugs, which eat other snails and earthworms, include the Testacellidae of Europe.
Marine gastropods of the subclass Opisthobranchia are sometimes called sea slugs (see opisthobranch).