Pseudaneitea aspera

Taxobox
name = "Pseudaneitea aspera"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Eupulmonata
subordo = Stylommatophora
infraordo = Sigmurethra
superfamilia = Succineoidea
familia = Athoracophoridae
genus = "Pseudaneitea"
genus_authority = Cockerell, 1891
species = "P. aspera"
binomial = "Pseudaneitea aspera"
binomial_authority = Burton, 1963

"Pseudaneitea aspera" is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand, in Canterbury's upper Mason River valley.

Habitat

This species lives in beech forest.

Description

This species has 20 shallow lateral grooves on either side, mostly unbranched. Small papillae densely cover the back. The two tentacles are barely noticeable. There is only a vestigial internal shell in the form of numerous small calcareous particles.

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]