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Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Triboniophorus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs.
This taxon may be invalid (taxon inquirendum). (Jan 2019) |
Triboniophorus | |
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Two individuals of Triboniophorus graeffei on Angophora costata bark, Chatswood West, NSW, Australia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Athoracophoridae |
Subfamily: | Aneitinae |
Genus: | Triboniophorus Humbert, 1863[1] |
Species | |
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Species within this genus include:[3]
Triboniophorus brisbanensis Pfeiffer, 1900:[2] Synonym of Triboniophorus graeffei (anatomy at page 316.)
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.
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