#4836 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Carolina Mantleslug
Philomycus carolinianus
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frode Jacobsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Clayton Bownds · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Tracey Fandre · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Peter May · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Tracey Fandre · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. © Benji Beluga · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © k8thegr8 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. © Nils Tack · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Philomycus carolinianus , common name the Carolina mantleslug , is a species of land slug, a terrestrial 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.
- 7,528 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc in 1802 (224 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Carolina Mantleslug
- scientific name
- Philomycus carolinianus
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Stylommatophora
- family
- Philomycidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 7,528
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1802 by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc
relatives· Philomycidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 179365, Wikidata Q3073965, GBIF 2297125, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.