Triboniophorus Graeffei - Dungog3
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''Triboniophorus'' is a genus of air-breathing land slugs,
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pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family
Athoracophoridae Athoracophoridae, common name the leaf-veined slugs, are a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Stylommatophora, the stalk-eyed snails and slugs. Many of the species have an attractive p ...
, the leaf-veined slugs.


Species

Species within this genus include: * '' Triboniophorus graeffei''
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, 1863
– the
red triangle slug The red triangle slug (''Triboniophorus graeffei'') is a species of large air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs. This large (up to ), often colorful and striking ...
– type speciesSolem 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
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* ''Triboniophorus'' sp. nov. 'Kaputar', a
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species, also called ''Triboniophorus'' sp. nov.'' 'Kaputar' '' *
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'' Triboniophorus brisbanensis'' Pfeiffer, 1900http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/tree.pl?pstrVol=PULMONATA;pintMode=2;pintTaxa=2442#2442 accessed 20 February 2009 (anatomy a
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.


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7840440 Athoracophoridae