New Hot-Pink Slug Found in Australia

This new species of 8-inch-long slug is found only on one mountain.

He's big. He's slimy. And he's … neon pink?! Meet Triboniophorus aff. graeffei, a new species of 8-inch-long slug that’s found only on one Australian mountain.

Scientists already knew that a bright-pink slug lived on Mount Kaputar (map), thinking it was a variety of the red triangle slug, a species common along the east coast of Australia. But new research shows that the colorful critter is actually its own species, said Australia’s National Parks and Wildlife Service ranger Michael Murphy.

“Recent morphological and genetics work by a researcher working on this slug family—the Athorcophoridae—has indicated the Kaputar slugs are a unique species endemic to Mount Kaputar and the only representative of this family in inland Australia,” said Murphy, who’s been

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