Common Name | Warty sea slug |
Language | English |
Type | Vernacular |
Official Trade Name | No |
Rank | 2 - (Preferred common name (unique)) |
Country | South Africa |
Locality | South Africa to Mozambique. |
Ref. | Branch, G., C. Griffiths, M. Branch and L. Beckley, 2016 |
Life Stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | behavior |
1st Modifier | habitat/ecology |
2nd Modifier | morphology |
Remarks | 'slug', a 'shell-less land snail'; related to 'sluggard', meaning 'habitually lazy person', from Middle English 'sluggi', sluggish, indolent; perhaps from dialectal Norwegian 'sluggje' meaning 'heavy, slow person'. |