Headshield Slugs

Marine Life / Headshield Slugs

Headshield slugs are fast-moving, often colourful sea slugs with a shield-like head, many of them active predators on Philippine sand and reef.

• Philinopsis speciosa

  Philinopsis speciosa is a predatory headshield slug with a brown to black body and pale or orange edges on its parapodia.

• Siphopteron makisig

  Siphopteron makisig is a tiny gastropterid headshield slug described from the Philippines in 2017.

• Psychedelic Batwing Slug Sagaminopteron psychedelicum

  The psychedelic batwing slug (Sagaminopteron psychedelicum) is a tiny headshield slug with a mesh of blue, orange and green lines.

• Siphopteron nakakatuwa

  Siphopteron nakakatuwa is a tiny headshield slug described from the Philippines in 2017.