Pseudaneitea simrothi

Taxobox
name = "Pseudaneitea simrothi"


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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. simrothi"
binomial = "Pseudaneitea simrothi"
binomial_authority = (Suter, 1896)

"Pseudaneitea simrothi" 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, at Collingwood.

Description

This species has 15 lateral grooves on either side, with three or four large oval 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.

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]