Reflectopallium pseudophyllum

Taxobox
name = "Reflectopallium pseudophyllum"


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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. pseudophyllum"
binomial = "Reflectopallium pseudophyllum"
binomial_authority = Burton, 1963

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

Distribution

This species is endemic to Hawdon River Forks in the South Island of New Zealand.

Habitat

Description

This species has 14 to 18 lateral grooves on either side, all branching. The papillae are low, rounded, and pairs are often fused into low ridges. The two tentacles are thick and protrude directly forward, about half the length of those of "Athoracophorus bitentaculatus". There is only a vestigial internal shell in the form of numerous small calcareous particles. Coloration is brownish-grey, mottled with black.

Life habits

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]