''Triboniophorus'' is a genus of air-breathing land

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

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Athoracophoridae Athoracophoridae, common name the leaf-veined slugs, are a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Stylommatophora, the stalk-eyed snails and slugs. Many of the species have an attractive patter ...

, the leaf-veined slugs.

Species

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Triboniophorus graeffei The red triangle slug, ''Triboniophorus graeffei'', is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs. Native to eastern Australia, this species is named after ...

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, 1863 – the

red triangle slug The red triangle slug, ''Triboniophorus graeffei'', is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs. Native to eastern Australia, this species is named afte ...

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''Systematics of the land and fresh-water mollusca of the New Hebrides''
Fieldiana Zoology, volume 43, number 1, Chicago Natural History Museum
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��46 * ''Triboniophorus'' sp. nov. 'Kaputar', a

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species, also known as ''Triboniophorus''

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''graeffei'' *

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'' Triboniophorus insularis'' '' Triboniophorus brisbanensis'' Pfeiffer, 1900:http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/tree.pl?pstrVol=PULMONATA;pintMode=2;pintTaxa=2442#2442 accessed 20 February 2009 Synonym of ''Triboniophorus graeffei'' (anatomy a
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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

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7840440 Athoracophoridae