Triboniophorus

Triboniophorus
	Two individuals of Triboniophorus graeffei on Angophora costata bark, Chatswood West, NSW, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; clade Elasmognatha
Superfamily:	Athoracophoroidea
Family:	Athoracophoridae
Genus:	Triboniophorus; Humbert, 1863

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 the veins of a leaf.

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

External links

[1] 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-2] 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

[3] ttp://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/tree.pl?pstrVol=PULMONATA;pintMode=2;pintTaxa=2442#2442 accessed 20 February 2009

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