NEW SPECIES: Worm-eating slug found in Cardiff
New species may be discovered in your backyard garden like this new species of carnivorous ghost slug recently discovered in Wales. The recently described species of ghost slug is eyeless and lives underground. The slug consumes earthworms “with its blade-like teeth, sucking them in like spaghetti.” From the BBC News, UK:
“The Ghost Slug belongs to an obscure and almost unpronounceable group of slugs - the Trigonochlamydidae,” said Ben Rowson, a biologist at National Museum Cardiff.
“We had to thumb through lots of old publications in Russian and German to find anything like them - but then discovered they were something entirely new.”
After studying the slug’s anatomy, the scientists realised it was an undescribed species and christened the creature with the name adapted from the Welsh word for ghost, ysbryd.
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