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Triboniophorus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Athoracophoridae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Genus

Superfamily
  
Athoracophoroidea

Scientific name
  
Triboniophorus

Higher classification
  
Athoracophoridae

Triboniophorus

Similar
  
Molluscs, Gastropods, Ocybadistes knightorum, Red slug, Bielzia coerulans

The real triboniophorus


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:

  • Triboniophorus graeffei Humbert, 1863 – the red triangle slug – type species
  • Triboniophorus aff. graeffei, a fluorescent pink variation
  • incertae sedis Triboniophorus brisbanensis Pfeiffer, 1900 (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.

    References

    Triboniophorus Wikipedia