Yellow Cellar Slug (Limacus flavus)

Yellow Cellar Slug, a reference photo — Photo: Pato Malruk Knight · CC BY 4.0 (licence)

Limacus flavus, known commonly as the cellar slug, the yellow slug, or the tawny garden slug, is a large species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Limacidae.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Yellow Cellar 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

Limacus maculatus

Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Limacidae
Genus: Limacus
Species: Limacus flavus

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