Pseudaneitea campbellensis

Taxobox
name = "Pseudaneitea campbellensis"


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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 = "Pseudaneitea"
genus_authority = Cockerell, 1891
species = "P. campbellensis"
binomial = "Pseudaneitea campbellensis"
binomial_authority = Burton, 1963

"Pseudaneitea campbellensis" 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 New Zealand's Campbell Island.

Description

This species has 17 lateral grooves on either side, very few unbranched. The two tentacles are barely noticeable. There is only a vestigial internal shell in the form of numerous small calcareous particles. There are numerous irregular black spots on the back.

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]