Milax gagates, known by the common name greenhouse slug, is a species of air-breathing, keeled, land slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Milacidae.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Greenhouse Slug being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Hesperarion niger
- Deroceras laeve
- Deroceras invadens
- Tandonia sowerbyi
- Hesperarion hemphilli
- Deroceras caucasicum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Milacidae
- Genus
- Milax
- Species
- Milax gagates
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