Pseudaneitea schauinslandi

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Pseudaneitea schauinslandi
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. schauinslandi
Binomial name
Pseudaneitea schauinslandi
(Plate, 1897)

Pseudaneitea schauinslandi 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 the South Island of New Zealand, on Stephens Island and in Marlborough Sounds.

[edit] Description

This species has 15 shallow lateral grooves on either side, with three or four papillae in each side field (an area bounded by grooves). The two tentacles are not visible. There is only a vestigial internal shell in the form of numerous small calcareous particles. The back is densely covered with small black spots.

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