Pseudaneitea huttoni

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Pseudaneitea huttoni
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. huttoni
Binomial name
Pseudaneitea huttoni
(Suter, 1909)

Pseudaneitea huttoni is 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 Snares Islands.

[edit] Description

This species has 18 to 21 lateral grooves on either side, with up to 5 papillae in a side field (an area bounded by grooves). There is only a vestigial internal shell in the form of numerous small calcareous particles. Coloration is light yellow with two rows of black spots flanking the midline.

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