Reflectopallium marmoratum

Taxobox
name = "Reflectopallium marmoratum"


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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. marmoratum"
binomial = "Reflectopallium marmoratum"
binomial_authority = (Simroth, 1889)
synonyms = "Athoracophorus marmoratus" Simroth, 1889
"Athoracophorus martensi" Suter, 1909

"Reflectopallium marmoratum", commonly known as one of the leaf-veined slugs, is a species of air-breathing land slug, specifically a leaf-veined slug, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Athoracophoridae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Auckland Islands and Australia's Macquarie Island, both south of New Zealand.

Description

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