We tend to associated mollusks with the sea, yet they walk among us. Well, slide anyway.
Slugs have vestigial shells and have to use their slime to move, hold in water, and for protection. Best not to lick them.
They are key part of their ecosystem. They recycle plant matter and disperse seeds and spores.
Mastodonians in the PNW Olympic Peninsula area live near the second largest slug in the world: the Banana Slug, which can reach 10 inches long.
Mastodon iSt doof: nix #moosmontag #mossmonday #molluskmonday #molluscmonday ok there shouldbe #mosstodon
Beautiful larval shell of the marine bivalve Semelina nuculoides sampled at -20m on the continental shelf offshore FSU's marine lab in the Florida panhandle, imaged today by Luke Calderaro #MolluskMonday #MolluscMonday #ScanningElectronMicroscopy #TinyWorlds
I've got a whole bunch of #shells to sort through this #MolluscMonday - and the next few months 
These are old unaccessioned specimens in the collection of the
Arctic Museum of #Norway, including shells that people donated over the past 150 years.
#MolluskMonday #naturalhistory #snails #museum
From the NMNH-IZ collections, a cool snail called Angaria sp. #Molluscmonday #molluskmonday (first on Mastodon?!)
