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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Mollusks
  4. Gastropods
  5. Common Land Snails and Slugs
  6. Roundback Slugs and Allies
  7. Banana Slugs and Allies
  8. Most observed native

Most observed native banana slugs and allies

Native to the US, by how plants support them, most observed first.

Plant eaters All

4 native animals that feed on plants, most observed first.

  • Pacific Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus 62,813 observations
  • Button's Banana Slug Ariolimax buttoni 17,044 observations
  • Slender Banana Slug Ariolimax dolichophallus 7,543 observations
  • Reticulate Taildropper Prophysaon andersonii 5,180 observations

Flower visitors All

1 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most observed first.

  • Pacific Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus 62,813 observations

Sheltered animals All

1 native animals that nest or roost in plants, most observed first.

  • Pacific Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus 62,813 observations

Other species All

9 native species with no plant ties on record, most observed first.

  • California Banana Slug Ariolimax californicus 6,701 observations
  • Yellow-bordered Taildropper Prophysaon foliolatum 2,594 observations
  • Southern Pacific Banana Slug Ariolimax stramineus 1,375 observations
  • Scarletback Taildropper Prophysaon vanattae 856 observations
  • Black Westernslug Hesperarion niger 582 observations
  • Ariolimax brachyphallus 517 observations
  • Papillose Taildropper Prophysaon dubium 79 observations
  • Hemphill's Westernslug Hesperarion hemphilli 72 observations
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