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==Description== |
==Description== |
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These slugs have two, not four, tentacles, and like other leaf-vein slugs they have an indented pattern on their dorsum which resembles that of a leaf. |
These slugs have two, not four, tentacles, and like other leaf-vein slugs they have an indented pattern on their dorsum which resembles that of a leaf. |
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==In Popular Culture== |
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In the online game Team Fortress 2, an unlockable hat titled the ''Triboniophorus Tyrannus'' is available to the player. This is a reference to the game's setting in Australia, as well as a reference to the popular TV show Futurama. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 06:23, 8 December 2010
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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Triboniophorus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs.
Species
Species within this genus include:
- Triboniophorus graeffei Humbert, 1863 - the red triangle slug - type species[2]
- incertae sedis Triboniophorus brisbanensis Pfeiffer, 1900[3] (anatomy at page 316.)
Description
These slugs have two, not four, tentacles, and like other leaf-vein slugs they have an indented pattern on their dorsum which resembles that of a leaf.
In Popular Culture
In the online game Team Fortress 2, an unlockable hat titled the Triboniophorus Tyrannus is available to the player. This is a reference to the game's setting in Australia, as well as a reference to the popular TV show Futurama.
References
- ^ Humbert A. (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.
- ^ 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
- ^ http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/tree.pl?pstrVol=PULMONATA;pintMode=2;pintTaxa=2442#2442 accessed 20 February 2009