Pseudaneitea gravisulca

Taxobox
name = "Pseudaneitea gravisulca"


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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. gravisulca"
binomial = "Pseudaneitea gravisulca"
binomial_authority = Burton, 1963

"Pseudaneitea gravisulca" 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 South Island, around Picton and Queen Charlotte Sound.

Description

This species has 17 very deep lateral grooves on either side. The two tentacles do not protrude. There is only a vestigial internal shell in the form of numerous small calcareous particles. The back is minutely granulate, buff with numerous longitudinally arranged black spots.

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]