/r/PicsOfUnusualSlugs

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Land slugs and sea slugs are welcome. Worms and sea cucumbers are not.

Land slugs and sea slugs are welcome. Worms and sea cucumbers are not.


1) Genetic unusualness

Real slugs with distinctly unusual visuals, behaviors, or facts.

Allowed "slugs":

  • land slugs / sea slugs / semi-slugs
  • nudibranchs / pleurobranchs
  • sacoglossans with no shells (Plakobranchacea)
  • headshield slugs
  • sea angels
  • sea hares
  • bubble snails (due to reduced shell)

Banned "slugs":

  • sea cucumbers
  • most snails
  • worms

2) Correct species name in title

Requires the common or scientific name, but reasonable mistakes won't be removed. This is helpful for education, searching, and research.

3) Minimum picture size = 400 by 400 pixels

4) "Good format"

  • No "photoshop" (minimal oversaturation, no deception)
  • No reaction text/emojis (no memes, no commentary)
  • No bad cropping (minimal black bars, no obvious screenshots)

Artwork is only allowed when extinct, nearly extinct, or beside a photograph.

5) Gifs/Videos allowed

Must have motion footage of the slug.

6) No compilations

No posts focusing on 3+ slug species.

7) No recent reposts

Try using the search bar before submitting.

  • No reposting: within 3 months
  • No species reposting: within 1 month


r/PicsofUnusualBirds

r/AIDKE (Animals I Didn't Know Existed)

/r/PicsOfUnusualSlugs

4,986 Subscribers

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Hopkin’s rose nudibranch (Ceratodoris rosacea) gets its rosy-pink pigment by eating pink bryozoans — tiny, colonial animals that form larger plant-like structures. Despite looking like bubblegum, the sea slug's frilly, pink appearance is thought to deter predators.

2 Comments
2025/01/21
02:14 UTC

163

Bursatella leachii

4 Comments
2025/01/01
10:02 UTC

179

Phylliroe nudibranch, looks like a fish

3 Comments
2024/12/25
22:20 UTC

94

Hot-Pink slug (Triboniophorus aff. graeffei) found in Mount Kaputar Volcano in Australia

1 Comment
2024/12/09
10:15 UTC

175

The New Zealand Pickle Slug(Athoracophorus papillatus)

5 Comments
2024/10/08
21:09 UTC

143

Nudibranch (gymnodoris inornata), Shek Ngau Chau, Hong Kong, September 2024 (OC).

3 Comments
2024/09/16
13:32 UTC

87

Nudibranch (Pteraeolidia), Tung Ping Chau, Hong Kong, August 2024 (OC)

2 Comments
2024/08/25
14:52 UTC

153

Unknown species of slug from Tanzania, Photographed by Matthieu Berroneau in early 2024

8 Comments
2024/06/11
21:28 UTC

75

Phyllidia ocellata nudibranch, off Sung Kong Island, Hong Kong, June 2024 (OC)

1 Comment
2024/06/09
15:27 UTC

131

Lettuce Slug!!

4 Comments
2024/04/25
19:10 UTC

73

Chromodoris annae, Anilao, Philippines, January 2024 (OC)

1 Comment
2024/03/08
13:03 UTC

77

Chromodoris willani nudibranch, Anilao, Philippines, January 2024

1 Comment
2024/03/01
13:42 UTC

48

Thecacera picta, Anilao, Philippines, January 2024 (OC)

1 Comment
2024/02/28
14:12 UTC

79

The gills (purple) & rhinophores (pink) of a Nembrotha chamberlaini nudibranch, Anilao, Philippines, January 2024 (OC)

2 Comments
2024/02/20
15:18 UTC

51

Hypeselodoris apolegma nudibranch, Anilao, Philippines, January 2024. Olympus TG-5 + darktable (OC)

2 Comments
2024/02/15
14:09 UTC

69

Batwing sea slug, Sagaminopteron psychedelicum

3 Comments
2023/12/30
14:47 UTC

48

Muangnua arborea, a recently discovered species of semislug from Thailand

7 Comments
2023/12/18
14:44 UTC

66

Thuridilla gracilis

3 Comments
2023/12/15
23:28 UTC

76

Nembrotha chamberlaini

3 Comments
2023/12/14
11:31 UTC

50

Cabangus regius

3 Comments
2023/12/11
11:53 UTC

192

Unidentia angelvaldesi

18 Comments
2023/12/09
15:15 UTC

16

Undescribed species of tailed snail in the family Urocyclidae

3 Comments
2023/12/07
23:21 UTC

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