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Triboniophorus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs.
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| Two individuals of Triboniophorus graeffei on Angophora costata bark, Chatswood West, NSW, Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Athoracophoridae |
| Subfamily: | Aneitinae |
| Genus: | Triboniophorus Humbert, 1863[1] |
| Species | |
Species edit
Species within this genus include:[3]
- Triboniophorus graeffei Humbert, 1863 – the red triangle slug – type species[4]
- Triboniophorus sp. nov. 'Kaputar', a fluorescent pink species, also known as Triboniophorus aff. graeffei
- incertae sedis Triboniophorus insularis (Grimpe & Hoffmann, 1925)
Triboniophorus brisbanensis Pfeiffer, 1900:[2] Synonym of Triboniophorus graeffei (anatomy at page 316.)
Description edit
These slugs have two, not four, tentacles, and like other leaf-vein slugs they have an indented pattern on their dorsum which resembles the veins of a leaf.
References edit
- ^ Humbert, Aloïs (31 December 1863). "Études sur quelques mollusques terrestres nouveaux ou peu connus". Mem. Soc. Phys. Nat. Hist. Geneve 17(1): 109-128. Description at page 119.
- ^ a b http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/tree.pl?pstrVol=PULMONATA;pintMode=2;pintTaxa=2442#2442[permanent dead link] accessed 20 February 2009
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Triboniophorus Humbert, 1863. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818612 on 2023-12-08
- ^ Solem A. 1959. Systematics of the land and fresh-water mollusca of the New Hebrides. Fieldiana Zoology, volume 43, number 1, Chicago Natural History Museum, page 45–46