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Athoracophoridae
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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 pattern on their dorsal surface which resembles the veins in a leaf, hence the common name.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 38 inbound references to Athoracophoridae, and connects out to Mollusca, Subantarctic and Pseudaneitea.
It is catalogued under topics including Athoracophoridae and Taxonbars with multiple manual Wikidata items.
Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyAthoracophoridae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,360
- With media
- 22
- Family
- Athoracophoridae
- Collections
- CAS, NMV, AM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia, Nouvelle-Caledonie
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Triboniophorus graeffei - Chatswood West.jpg
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- Commons category
- Athoracophoridae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Athoracophoridae
- topic's main category
- Category:Athoracophoridae
- taxon common name
- leaf-veined slugs
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Anatomy
- Distribution
- Taxonomy
- Genera
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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 pattern on their dorsal surface which resembles the veins in a leaf, hence the common name.
Athoracophoridae is the only family in the superfamily Athoracophoroidea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Athoracophoridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.