Slugs are mollusks (sort of like snails without the shell), but worms are annellids (which are soft-bodied animals with segmented bodies). Slugs are considered to be more evolved than worms.
Banana Slug are Mollusks, which means they are soft-bodied with no visible skeleton. They also belong to the class Gastropoda, which can be recognized by having a muscular foot, a mantle with a cavity, a meaty hump on their back, and a radula (or sand-paper-like grinding mouth parts). They are Pulmonates, which means they have a small lung inside their bodies which opens to the outside with a pneumostone.
A worm is an elongated soft-bodied invertebrate animal. The best-known is the earthworm, a member of phylum Annelida, but there are hundreds of thousands of species that live in a wide variety of habitats other than soil.
October 4th, 2011 at 9:37 am
Not really.
Slugs are mollusks (sort of like snails without the shell), but worms are annellids (which are soft-bodied animals with segmented bodies). Slugs are considered to be more evolved than worms.
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October 9th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
They are both invertebrates and that is about as far as it goes.
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October 14th, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Banana Slug are Mollusks, which means they are soft-bodied with no visible skeleton. They also belong to the class Gastropoda, which can be recognized by having a muscular foot, a mantle with a cavity, a meaty hump on their back, and a radula (or sand-paper-like grinding mouth parts). They are Pulmonates, which means they have a small lung inside their bodies which opens to the outside with a pneumostone.
A worm is an elongated soft-bodied invertebrate animal. The best-known is the earthworm, a member of phylum Annelida, but there are hundreds of thousands of species that live in a wide variety of habitats other than soil.
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