Reflectopallium delli

Taxobox
name = "Reflectopallium delli"


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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 = "Reflectopallium"
species = "R. maculosus"
binomial = "Reflectopallium delli"
binomial_authority = Burton, 1963

"Reflectopallium delli" is an air-breathing land slug, specifically a leaf-veined slug, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Athoracophoridae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to islands in Pelorus Sound in the South Island of New Zealand.

Description

This species has 17 lateral grooves on either side, mostly bifid. The papillae are very numerous, minute, and hemispherical. The two tentacles are not externally apparent. 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]