Is it too late for a Squid Game reference? Surely not. People still remember Squid Game, right?

Well say hello to the Red Triangle Slug. The Red Triangle Slug is a member of the second tier of henchman in Slug Game. You see, slugs and squids are both molluscs, and so Slug Game is very similar to Squid Game, except the challenges are more difficult because no one has any arms or legs.

You thought Honeycomb was hard? Try carving out the umbrella using only a small, tongue-like organ called a radula.

Red Triangle Slugs are Australia’s largest native land slug, growing up to 15cm, and can be found along most of the east coast. They typically eat algae on eucalyptus trees, but apparently will also sort out the mould in your bathroom if you give them the chance.

They have a rather unusual defence mechanism which involves releasing a kind of sticky mucus when threatened. This mucus is strong enough to glue down predators for days! This ability is known as a ‘dick move’ when playing Red Light, Green Light in the Slug Game. But a slug does what a slug’s gotta do to survive, you know?

While Red Triangle Slugs can be highly variable in colour – white, pink, dark grey and olive to name a few – all of them have the distinctive red triangle on top, as well as a red lining around the foot. (Yes, the base of a slug is called the foot, isn’t that adorable?)

Last stop on our tour of slug anatomy is the tiny little hole you can see at the bottom of the slug’s triangle. This is called a pneumostome, and it allows land slugs to breathe. Pretty neat!

Good luck in the Slug Game.

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Red Triangle Slug (Triboniophorus graeffei), Mount Hypipamee, Australia