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[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip 115 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Would it be wrong to have the turtle in that spot? And replace where turtle is now with tortoise. More importantly there's another missing spot, no slime, no legs, and 1 house. What goes there?

[–] denial@feddit.org 82 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Clam? Maybe if we are generous with the "no slime" definition.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 month ago

Clams have a "foot" that they use to move around with sometimes.

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[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] potoo22@programming.dev 16 points 1 month ago

I'd put the slime as "probably". Their shells can get coated in slime, but not always and they don't generate it.

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[–] wieson@feddit.org 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] myster0n@feddit.nl 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] potoo22@programming.dev 62 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Only two legs and too many houses. Slimy, yes.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Phylogenetically, they're still tetrapods.

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[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I GOT IT!! it's a softshell turtle!!

they live in freshwater like lakes so they are slimy, have 4 legs, and can retract into their body

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’m a fan of Fly River Turtles (also affectionately known as Pig Nosed Turtles):

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 65 points 1 month ago

A couple who make real-estate influencer videos?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That graph is also missing a data point at [Slime, Legs, House] = [No, 0, 1].

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but it can be filled in with "house".

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Clam? I'd put them at like 0.25 slime, though

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[–] unknown@piefed.social 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hermit crab should work? It feels more 'house' than a regular exoskeleton

[–] potoo22@programming.dev 19 points 1 month ago

It doesn't have slime to be yes on the slime axis.

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[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 month ago

Nautiloids? They have a shell, are slimy, and have tentacles ("feet")

[–] bitMasque@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Four appendages, is slimy, and has a house...

Is it the average landlord?

[–] fulcrummed@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Surinam Frog. 4 legs, slimy, and it incubates its eggs in the skin of the female's back for 4-6 months.

If we consider parasites as inhabitants, there are a lot of slimy house quadrupeds.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 27 points 1 month ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus with a lot of legs/limbs removed.

I guessing there might have been a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautiloid, now extinct that had "only" 4 legs.

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's Longhorn Cowfish.

The hexagonal plate-like scales of these fish are fused together into a solid, triangular, box-like carapace, from which the fins and tail protrude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhorn_cowfish

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why does that look like Donald trump

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[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

a nautilus, as long as you accept tentacles as legs

Although, they have more than 4, so I guess they wouldint be featured at that particular point

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

A well lubeicated turtle

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

1 house. 4 legs. Yes Slime.

Two married lawyers with a horse costume.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 19 points 1 month ago (6 children)

What about no legs, no slime, and a house?

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bro, that's a regular old house.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How'd you get a house with no slime?

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

I was first in line.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't know, some turtles could be quite slimy. At the corner where it says turtle it should probably say tortoise, and at the "what goes here" corner you can put something like a softshell turtle.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah turtle goes in that corner and them armadillo or something for 4 legs, house, no slime.

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[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Octopus, they typically go into objects and close them tightly like a shell, and no doubt about legs and slime.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Soup@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They have zero, actually. No arms, either. They’re molluscs like clams and snails and the tentacles are actually a single modified apendage we call their foot. So, by that, they’ve actually got not enough legs and eight “toes”.

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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 13 points 1 month ago

A middle class couple with a food fetish?

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm more concerned with the partials on the scale. 3 legs, maybe slime, and 0.25 house?

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I don't wanna meet anything that is slimy and has four legs. That is pretty much how games like half-life start.

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a turtle fan it's always cool when you can look at a diagram and suddenly spot a turtle on it! 🐢

It's like looking at the H-R diagram and going "ooo, Discworld would be right about there, possibly"

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (7 children)
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