Triboniophorus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs.

Triboniophorus
Two individuals of Triboniophorus graeffei on Angophora costata bark, Chatswood West, NSW, Australia
Two individuals of Triboniophorus graeffei on Angophora costata bark, Chatswood West, NSW, Australia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Athoracophoridae
Subfamily: Aneitinae
Genus: Triboniophorus
Humbert, 1863[1]
Species

Species

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Species within this genus include:[3]

Triboniophorus brisbanensis Pfeiffer, 1900:[2] Synonym of Triboniophorus graeffei (anatomy at page 316.)

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 the veins of a leaf.

References

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  1. ^ Humbert, Aloïs (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.
  2. ^ a b http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/tree.pl?pstrVol=PULMONATA;pintMode=2;pintTaxa=2442#2442[permanent dead link] accessed 20 February 2009
  3. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Triboniophorus Humbert, 1863. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818612 on 2023-12-08
  4. ^ 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