Pseudaneitea maculata

Taxobox
name = "Pseudaneitea maculata"


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

"Pseudaneitea maculata" 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 Queen Charlotte Sound in New Zealand's South Island.

Description

This species has 17 lateral grooves on either side, with one or two small papillae in each side field (an area bounded by grooves). There is only a vestigial internal shell in the form of numerous small calcareous particles. Coloration is buff with irregular 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]