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Prophysaon

Prophysaon, common name taildropper slugs, is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.

These slugs can self-amputate ( autotomy) a portion of their tail. This autotomy has been observed in the species Prophysaon andersoni.