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''Atopos'' is a genus of carnivorous air-breathing
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. *''Atopos schildii'' Babor, 1900 *''Atopos scutulatus'' P. Sarasin & F. Sarasin, 1899 * ''
Bornean ''Atopos'' specialising in '' Opisthostoma'' are known to tailor their approach to the size of the prey. They hold small snails with the shells aperture-upward with the front of its foot and eat their way down. Larger ones scrape away the shell to allow access through the spire. This behaviour is thought to drive the evolution of shell ornamentation in ''Opisthostoma''.Tan S. K. & Chan S-Y. (2009). "New records of predatory slugs from Singapore with notes on their feeding behaviour". ''Nature in Singapore'' 2: 1-7
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photo of predating by ''Atopos''
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land slug
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a sm ...
s, terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
s in the family Rathouisiidae
Rathouisiidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Veronicelloidea, the leatherleaf slugs and their allies.
This family has no subfamilies according to the ''Taxonomy ...
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Species
Species within the genus ''Atopos'' include: * ''Atopos aborense'' (Ghosh, 1913) *''Atopos australis
''Atopos'' is a genus of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rathouisiidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Atopos'' include:
* ''Atopos aborense'' (Ghosh, 1913)
*'' Atopos australis' ...
'' Heynemann, 1876
*''Atopos cristagalli'' P. Sarasin & F. Sarasin, 1899
*''Atopos galeatus'' Simroth, 1920
*''Atopos harmeri'' Collinge, 1902
* ''Atopos kempii
''Atopos'' is a genus of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rathouisiidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Atopos'' include:
* ''Atopos aborense'' (Ghosh, 1913)
*''Atopos australis'' ...
'' Ghose, 1913Liew T.-S. & Schilthuizen M. (2014). "Association between shell morphology of micro-land snails (genus ''Plectostoma'') and their predator’s predatory behaviour". ''PeerJ'' 2: e329. .
*''Atopos leuckarti'' Simroth, 1891
* ''Atopos laidlawi
''Atopos'' is a genus of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rathouisiidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Atopos'' include:
* ''Atopos aborense'' (Ghosh, 1913)
*''Atopos australis'' ...
'' Collinge, 1902
* ''Atopos maximus
''Atopos'' is a genus of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rathouisiidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Atopos'' include:
* ''Atopos aborense'' (Ghosh, 1913)
*''Atopos australis'' ...
'' Collinge 1903
* ''Atopos ouwensi
''Atopos'' is a genus of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rathouisiidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Atopos'' include:
* ''Atopos aborense'' (Ghosh, 1913)
*''Atopos australis'' ...
'' Collinge, 1908
* ''Atopos prismatica
''Atopos'' is a genus of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rathouisiidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Atopos'' include:
* ''Atopos aborense'' (Ghosh, 1913)
*''Atopos australis'' ...
'' Tapparone-Canefri, 1883
*''Atopos pristis'' P. Sarasin & F. Sarasin, 1899
* ''Atopos punctata
''Atopos'' is a genus of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rathouisiidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Atopos'' include:
* ''Atopos aborense'' (Ghosh, 1913)
*''Atopos australis'' ...
'' Collinge, 1902
* ''Atopos rugosus
''Atopos'' is a genus of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rathouisiidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Atopos'' include:
* ''Atopos aborense'' (Ghosh, 1913)
*''Atopos australis'' ...
'' Collinge, 1902
*''Atopos sanguinolentus'' Ghosh, 1912
* ''Atopos sarasini
''Atopos'' is a genus of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rathouisiidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Atopos'' include:
* ''Atopos aborense'' (Ghosh, 1913)
*''Atopos australis'' ...
'' Collinge 1902 Laidlaw F. F. (1940). "Notes on some specimens of the genus ''Atopos'' (Mollusca Pulmonata) with microphotographs illustrating points in the anatomy of the genus". ''The Bulletin of the Raffles Museum
''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'' is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at the National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national pub ...
'' 16: 121-132. *''Atopos schildii'' Babor, 1900 *''Atopos scutulatus'' P. Sarasin & F. Sarasin, 1899 * ''
Atopos semperi
''Atopos'' is a genus of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rathouisiidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Atopos'' include:
* ''Atopos aborense'' (Ghosh, 1913)
*''Atopos australis'' ...
'' Simroth, 1891
*''Atopos simrothi'' P. Sarasin & F. Sarasin, 1899
*''Atopos smithi'' (Collinge, 1902)
*''Atopos strubelli'' Simroth, 1891
*''Atopos tourannensis'' (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1852)
Synonyms:
* ''Atopos leonina'' (Heude, 1882) is a synonym of ''Rathouisia leonina
''Rathouisia leonina'' is a species of carnivorous air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Rathouisiidae. This species is endemic to China.
This slug is carnivorous and actively preys on snails. It i ...
'' Heude, 1882
Distribution
The predatory carnivorous slugs in the genus ''Atopos'' are found in peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, New Guinea, northeast Australia and, recently, Singapore.Feeding habits
Bornean ''Atopos'' specialising in '' Opisthostoma'' are known to tailor their approach to the size of the prey. They hold small snails with the shells aperture-upward with the front of its foot and eat their way down. Larger ones scrape away the shell to allow access through the spire. This behaviour is thought to drive the evolution of shell ornamentation in ''Opisthostoma''.Tan S. K. & Chan S-Y. (2009). "New records of predatory slugs from Singapore with notes on their feeding behaviour". ''Nature in Singapore'' 2: 1-7References
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photo of predating by ''Atopos''
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