Megapallifera mutabilis
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| image = Megapallifera mutabilis.jpg
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| status =
| status_ref =
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Mollusca
| classis = Gastropoda
| unranked_superfamilia =
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
| superfamilia = Arionoidea
| familia = Philomycidae
| genus = Megapallifera
| species = M. mutabilis
| binomial = Megapallifera mutabilis
| binomial_authority = (Hubricht, 1951)
| synonyms =
}}
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.{{cite journal |last1=Paustian |first1=Megan E. |last2=Barbosa |first2=Pedro |title=Overlap of food and microhabitat preferences among some native and nonnative slugs in mid-Atlantic forests of eastern North America |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |date=February 2012 |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=92–99 |doi=10.1093/mollus/eyr041 |url=https://academic.oup.com/mollus/article/78/1/92/1103622?login=true |access-date=16 June 2022|doi-access=free }}
References
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Category:Gastropods described in 1951
Category:Gastropods of North America
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