Pseudaneitea huttoni

Taxobox
name = "Pseudaneitea huttoni"


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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. huttoni"
binomial = "Pseudaneitea huttoni"
binomial_authority = (Suter, 1909)

"Pseudaneitea huttoni" 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 Snares Islands.

Description

This species has 18 to 21 lateral grooves on either side, with up to 5 papillae in a side field (an area bounded by grooves). There is only a vestigial internal shell in the form of numerous small calcareous particles. Coloration is light yellow with two rows of black spots flanking the midline.

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]