''Trigonochlamys imitatrix'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

predatory Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill ...

air-breathing land

slug Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less Terrestrial mollusc, 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 ...

. It is a shell-less

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 ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

in the family

Trigonochlamydidae Trigonochlamydidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Distribution The native distribution of Trigonochla ...

. ''Trigonochlamys imitatrix'' is the only species in the genus ''Trigonochlamys''. ''Trigonochlamys'' is the type genus of the family Trigonochlamydidae.

Distribution

The distribution of ''Trigonochlamys imitatrix'' includes: *

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* north-eastern

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(

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) The type locality is

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, Georgia.

Description

The size of preserved specimens is 33–62 mm. Live individuals are larger."Species summary for ''Trigonochlamys imitatrix''"

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Ecology

''Trigonochlamys imitatrix'' inhabits forests.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7841811 Trigonochlamydidae