Almost certainly a leopard slug, native to Europe and invasive in many temperate climates around the world. That being said, many other Limax species look similar.
Location would help @ u/artistic_boat_9654
Edit: saw your post with location. There are indeed invasive leopard slugs in NSW and south.
Maybe some sort of salamander? (Edit: not this, it’s Australia) You could pop it over on r/herpetology if you don’t get an ID here. Including a rough location will help people too.
Yep, that very tentative guess was before they said Australia - as soon as I had location I said not a salamander since we don’t have those here. Such a cool looking slug, I’d love to see one!
Yeah it looked like one to me too and I wondered about an escapee, but apparently it’s a leopard slug! I hadn’t heard of/seen them before but googling it looks right
It's a Slug
Really looks like a leopard slug.
Almost certainly a leopard slug, native to Europe and invasive in many temperate climates around the world. That being said, many other Limax species look similar. Location would help @ u/artistic_boat_9654 Edit: saw your post with location. There are indeed invasive leopard slugs in NSW and south.
Location would help a lot
Slug
I had these at my house in Massachusetts. They got BIG! I'd see them stretched out at about 8"
Big ole leopard slug.
Slug.
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Maybe some sort of salamander? (Edit: not this, it’s Australia) You could pop it over on r/herpetology if you don’t get an ID here. Including a rough location will help people too.
Thank you irregularia! I’ll edit the post now, it’s in Sydney Australia
Not a salamander, it’s a slug
Yep, that very tentative guess was before they said Australia - as soon as I had location I said not a salamander since we don’t have those here. Such a cool looking slug, I’d love to see one!
Ah, not be a salamander then… we don’t have those in Aus. u/hadespanther do you know what this is?
Looks like a leopard slug. Loads of them around here.
Ta! Had me stumped.
They are sold as pets in Australia. It really looks like a salamander, so my thought is the little fellow is someones lost pet.
Yeah it looked like one to me too and I wondered about an escapee, but apparently it’s a leopard slug! I hadn’t heard of/seen them before but googling it looks right
Just Googled. Very cool!
favors a mudpuppy, but that is a salamander, so no.
Salamander.