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🧬 Biological Classification (Kingdom to Species)Meghimatium bilineatum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Family

Philomycidae

Genus

Meghimatium

Species

Meghimatium bilineatum

Gastropoda🌿 Herbivore

Chinese slug

Meghimatium bilineatum (Chinese slug · Chinese slug)

🛡️ Conservation Status (IUCN Red List)NE (Not Evaluated)

Not Evaluated (NE) on the IUCN Red List yet.

Geological Era

Extant

Diet

Herbivore

Length · Height

No data · No data

Mass · Top Speed

No data · No data

Habitat & Fossil Locality

Under plants in damp places, on farmland, in landscaped areas, on tree bark, on rocks, and under fallen logs

💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed

💡 It comes out to look for food after rain and is also found in farmland and urban landscaped areas (California Department of Food and Agriculture data).
💡 In China, extracts of this slug have been used as a medicinal ingredient to treat infectious diseases (2024 genome paper).
💡 Researchers at the Rural Development Administration confirmed this slug in greenhouse perilla farms (2010).

Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.

#민달팽이#Meghimatium bilineatum

📖 1. Overview

The Chinese slug (Meghimatium bilineatum) is a shell-less land slug known in East Asia as a pest that damages farm crops, horticultural crops, grasslands, and forests. In China, it is also used in traditional medicine.

🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology

Like other slugs, it lacks a shell, protects its body with mucus, and breathes air with a lung. Because it has no shell, it moves relatively quickly to escape predators.

🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior

It stays in damp places and comes out to forage after rain, eating both living and rotting plants indiscriminately. In the laboratory, females live up to 4 years and lay an average of 932 eggs.

🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea

It is listed on the National List of Species of Korea as Min-dalpaengi (Korean name). In a survey of greenhouse perilla farms in Miryang, Gyeongsangnam-do and Busan, it was identified as one of 4 snail and slug species, though its numbers were so low that there was no distinct peak season.