#4815 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Changeable Mantleslug
Megapallifera mutabilis
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
📍 Ohio, US
📍 55 Maple Ave, South Grafton, MA, US
📍 Abington, MA 02351, USA
📍 Barden Reservoir, Foster, RI, US
📍 East Greenbush, NY 12061, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. Ohio, US:© Timothy Lindsey · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 55 Maple Ave, South Grafton, MA, US:© Jessye · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Abington, MA 02351, USA:© BCAL 17 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Barden Reservoir, Foster, RI, US:© skyleralbon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. East Greenbush, NY 12061, USA:© tulip23 · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Megapallifera mutabilis , common name the changeable mantleslug , is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Philomycidae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 11,851 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Leslie Hubricht in 1951 (75 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Changeable Mantleslug
- scientific name
- Megapallifera mutabilis
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Philomycidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 11,851
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1951 by Leslie Hubricht
relatives· Philomycidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 143302, Wikidata Q3075514, GBIF 2297133, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.