Megapallifera mutabilis, common name the changeable mantleslug, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Philomycidae. It eats primarily algae, and lives in live trees such as American beech. The species is native to eastern North America.[1]
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Species: | M. mutabilis
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| Megapallifera mutabilis (Hubricht, 1951)
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- ^ Paustian, Megan E.; Barbosa, Pedro (February 2012). "Overlap of food and microhabitat preferences among some native and nonnative slugs in mid-Atlantic forests of eastern North America". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 78 (1): 92–99. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr041. Retrieved 16 June 2022.