Smeagol hilaris
Critically endangered.
Smeagol hilaris is a pulmonate slug and is one of five species in the genus Smeagol. Pulmonate slugs have developed lungs instead of gills and can breathe air. They are a translucent white in colour resembling a fly maggot, with some of the internal organs visible through the exterior surface.
Most specimens found have been 5 – 6 mm long.
Smeagol hilaris has only been collected from a small isolated location at Merry Beach, south of Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia.
Smeagol hilaris lives in gravel and cobble filled rocky crevices at Merry Beach. Little is known about their ecology or reproductive biology