What's slimy, has 4 legs, and is a house?

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

I’m a fan of Fly River Turtles (also affectionately known as Pig Nosed Turtles):
- Where is c/turtle when I need it?
I think this one wins the serious answer contest. Nice find, TriflingToad.
- And tortoise should probably go where turtle is.

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

Is it the average landlord?

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

Why does that look like Donald trump
- It's the dead soulless eyes
But with four legs so it can crawl out onto land and move from one tide pool to another!

Battletoads!!!
Little dude has a sick hat. I wish I looked that cool in a hat.

Move turtle to that corner and put tortoise in its spot

Florida man

Saint bernard?

Nautilus missing some tentacles.

A horny turtle

I wonder if it is just stone

Are soft shelled turtles slimey?

Cattersnail?

No, Snailapillar!

Hermit crab?

A shelled salamander

Salamanders, people keep them as pets

They don't have a house that they can carry around like a snail or something they ca retract into like a tortoise.
- Ahh, I thought it meant they like houses like snails like house gardens and turtles are pets in houses but that does make more sense ty I guess

Snail with four legd

How about turtoise? Their skin is a bit slimy when it‘s wet.

Master Roshi.

Does not have 4 legs. Unless ...
- Eh. Four limbs.

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?

Clam? Maybe if we are generous with the "no slime" definition.
A house
- A flooded stilt house.
Came here to say this exactly. And I'm thinking like maybe some kind of sea creature, maybe coral?
Certain coral species, maybe?
Move snake to no slime, no legs, one house, and replace it with legless lizards. People do keep snakes as pets but I've never heard the same for legless lizards
Edit: Apparently I misread the meaning of house in this graph
- Snake no is house
- House doesn't mean pet. House means is a house. Snail, turtle, oyster, clam, etc are house.

A landlord?

Only two legs and too many houses. Slimy, yes.
- Phylogenetically, they're still tetrapods.
- They only stand on their back legs when they feel threatened, to make themselves look bigger
- A married couple who are landlords.

A couple who make real-estate influencer videos?

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

Yeah, but it can be filled in with "house".
Clam? I'd put them at like 0.25 slime, though
- Coral isn't slimy I think
Maybe some sea animal with a house? I'd imagine you don't need slime under water. But I'm no biologist.
Mushroom? In particular, the ones that look most like Smurf houses?
Slimeless, legless, housed.
Houseplant?

C R A B

Hermit crab should work? It feels more 'house' than a regular exoskeleton
- It doesn't have slime to be yes on the slime axis.
- Oooh, or what about that weird critter that births its young through holes in its back? That's a slimey house with 4 legs!
  Edit: Oh wait, no. I looked up 'animal with holes in its back full of babies' and it's the Suriname Toad, so still a frog basically.

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

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.

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.

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

A well lubeicated turtle

1 house. 4 legs. Yes Slime.

Two married lawyers with a horse costume.

A turtle with a cold?

Or a fungal infection

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

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.

Yeah turtle goes in that corner and them armadillo or something for 4 legs, house, no slime.
Almost.... the grid is wrong, it should be tortoise... 4 legs , house, dry...
Turtle 4 legs house slimy....

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

Too many legs
- 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”.
- That's a problem with the choice of axis scale, not the response. Octopus is the correct answer, because it is at or near the extreme of all three axes.

A middle class couple with a food fetish?

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"

My hat's off to you, friend
It's rare to find myself out disc-nerded, but here we are
The turtle moves!

ME

Most humans don't have more than 3 legs.
- On average, we have slightly less than two, even.

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

I was actually opening the comments to ask if headcrabs are slimy enough to fill this niche.
Hey look, this guy is scared of frogs!!
- forgot to add "and has an exoskeleton"