Species Cards

Mollusc

Group:

Animal, Invertebrate (minibeast)

A slug is a type of mollusc. Erica Bower

© Erica Bower

A slug is a type of mollusc

Food chain :

Herbivore

What it eats :

Plants

Eaten by:

Hedgehog, toad, some birds.

Habitat:

Woodland; Wildflower Grassland; PondWoodland; Wildflower Grassland; Pond

Description:

Slugs and snails are molluscs. Molluscs are invertebrates (animals without backbones) whose bodies are soft-walled and not divided into segments (unlike insects which have jointed bodies and usually have a hard outer skeleton).


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