page_title: Testacella
section_title: Life habits
hierarchical_section_title: Testacella / Life habits
caption_attribution_description: English: Testacella 1 - 2 - 3 - Testacella maugei
context_page_description: Testacella is genus of small to medium-large, predatory, air-breathing, land slugs. They are terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Testacellidae, the shelled slugs. They are not often seen because they live underground.
  Testacella is the only genus in the family, in other words it is a monotypic family. Testacella is the type genus of the family Testacellidae.
context_section_description: These slugs live underground and hunt earthworms. They are usually only seen when they are forced up to the surface because the soil has become completely saturated with rain.
caption: Drawing from 1896 showing the three species of Testacella found in Great Britain
   1 - Testacella haliotidea
   2 - Testacella scutulum
   3 - Testacella maugei
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