Palliopodex verrucosus

Taxobox
name = "Palliopodex verrucosus"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
subordo = Eupulmonata
infraordo = Stylommatophora
subinfraorder = Sigmurethra
superfamilia = Athoracophoroidea
familia = Athoracophoridae
genus = "Palliopodex"
genus_authority = Burton, 1963
species = "P. verrucosus"
binomial = "Palliopodex verrucosus"
binomial_authority = (Simroth, 1889)

"Palliopodex verrucosus" is a leaf-veined slug, an air-breathing land slug or terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Athoracophoridae.

This is the only species in the genus "Palliopodex", in other words, "Paliopodex" is a monotypic genus.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the Auckland Islands of New Zealand.

Description

This species has 20 shallow lateral grooves on either side, nearly all unbranched. The papillae are very numerous, small and conical. The two tentacles are barely noticeable. There is only a vestigial internal shell, in the form of numerous small calcareous particles.The coloration is uniformly black, or yellowish-brown with a median black stripe, and bands of black streaks and spots flanking the midline on either side.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Bio11Tuat02-t1-body-d7.html NZETC]