Troglolestes sokolovi is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae.[2]
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| Genus: | Troglolestes Ljovushkin & Matiokin, 1965[1]
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Troglolestes sokolovi is the only species in the genus Troglolestes.
The generic name Troglolestes contains the suffix -lestes, that means "robber".[3]
Distribution
editThe distribution of Troglolestes sokolovi includes only its type locality.
The type locality of Troglolestes sokolovi is the Vorontzovskaya Cave near Sochi, Russia.[2]
Ecology
editTroglolestes sokolovi inhabits the cave.[2] Animals inhabiting caves are called troglobites. It was discovered as the first species of troglobite slug in 1965.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c (in Russian) Левушкин С. И. & Матекин П. В. [Liovushkin S. I. & Matiokin P. V.] (1965). "Biospeliologia Sovetica XXV. Troglolestes sokolovi gen. n., sp. n. – первый троглобионтный слизень. Бюллетень Московского общества испытателей природы, отдел биологический". ["Biospeliologia Sovetica XXV. Troglolestes sokolovi gen. n., sp. n. – the first troglobiontic slug"]. Byulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, otdel biologiya 70(3): 35-46.
- ^ a b c Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V.(published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.
- ^ Suvorov A. N. (2003). "A new species and genus of carnivorous slugs (Pulmonata Trigonochlamydidae) from West Transcaucasia". Ruthenica 13: 149-152. abstract.