Triboniophorus

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Triboniophorus
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Two individuals of Triboniophorus graeffei on Angophora costata bark, Chatswood West, NSW, Australia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Athoracophoridae
Subfamily: Aneitinae
Genus: Triboniophorus
Humbert, 1863 [1]
Species

Triboniophorus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs.

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Species

Species within this genus include: [3]

Triboniophorus brisbanensis Pfeiffer, 1900 [2] : Synonym of Triboniophorus graeffei (anatomy at page 316.)

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.

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References

  1. Humbert, Aloïs (31 December 1863). "Études sur quelques mollusques terrestres nouveaux ou peu connus". Mem. Soc. Phys. Nat. Hist. Geneve17(1): 109-128. Description at page 119.
  2. 1 2 http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/tree.pl?pstrVol=PULMONATA;pintMode=2;pintTaxa=2442#2442%5B%5D accessed 20 February 2009
  3. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Triboniophorus Humbert, 1863. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818612 on 2023-12-08
  4. 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