Triboniophorus
Triboniophorus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs.
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| Two individuals of Triboniophorus graeffei on Angophora costata bark, Chatswood West, NSW, Australia | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Superorder: | Eupulmonata |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Athoracophoridae |
| Subfamily: | Aneitinae |
| Genus: | Triboniophorus Humbert, 1863[1] |
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Species
Species within this genus include:
- Triboniophorus graeffei Humbert, 1863 – the red triangle slug – type species[3]
- Triboniophorus sp. nov. 'Kaputar', a fluorescent pink species, also called Triboniophorus sp. nov. 'Kaputar'
- incertae sedis Triboniophorus brisbanensis Pfeiffer, 1900[2] (anatomy at page 316.)
Description
These slugs have two, not four, tentacles, and like other leaf-vein slugs they have an indented pattern on their dorsum which resembles the veins of a leaf.
References
- Humbert, Aloïs (31 December 1863). "Études sur quelques mollusques terrestres nouveaux ou peu connus". Mem. Soc. Phys. Nat. Hist. Geneve 17(1): 109-128. Description at page 119.
- http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/tree.pl?pstrVol=PULMONATA;pintMode=2;pintTaxa=2442#2442%5B%5D accessed 20 February 2009
- Solem A. 1959. Systematics of the land and fresh-water mollusca of the New Hebrides. Fieldiana Zoology, volume 43, number 1, Chicago Natural History Museum, page 45–46
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