Triboniophorus
| Triboniophorus | |
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| Two individuals of Triboniophorus graeffei on Angophora costata bark, Chatswood West, NSW, Australia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Athoracophoroidea |
| Family: | Athoracophoridae |
| Genus: | Triboniophorus Humbert, 1863[1] |
Triboniophorus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs.
Species
Species within this genus include:
- Triboniophorus graeffei Humbert, 1863 - the red triangle slug - type species[2]
- Triboniophorus aff. graeffei, a fluorescent pink variation
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 A. (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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/tree.pl?pstrVol=PULMONATA;pintMode=2;pintTaxa=2442#2442 accessed 20 February 2009