Pseudaneitea gigantea

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Pseudaneitea gigantea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Heterobranchia
Order: Pulmonata
Suborder: Eupulmonata
Infraorder: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Athoracophoroidea
Family: Athoracophoridae
Genus: Pseudaneitea
Cockerell, 1891
Species: P. gigantea
Binomial name
Pseudaneitea gigantea
(Suter, 1909)

Pseudaneitea giganteais a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs.

[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's South Island, in beech forest on the west coast.

[edit] Description

This species has 15 lateral grooves on either side, the majority unbranched, with the median groove broad, shallow, and black. The two tentacles do not protrude. There is only a vestigial internal shell in the form of numerous small calcareous particles. The back has numerous irregular black spots.

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