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Athoracophorus bitentaculatus

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Athoracophorus bitentaculatus
Leaf-veined native slug at Ship Creek near Haast
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Athoracophoridae
Genus: Athoracophorus
Species:
A. bitentaculatus
Binomial name
Athoracophorus bitentaculatus
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
Synonyms

Limax bitentaculatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
Janella antipodarum Gray, 1853
Neojanella dubia Cockerell, 1891
Janella maculata Collinge, 1894
Athoracophorus bitentaculatus rufovenosus Suter, 1909

Athoracophorus bitentaculatus, is a species of land slug endemic to New Zealand.[1]

Ecology

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Parasites of Athoracophorus bitentaculatus include:

Mating

References

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  1. ^ "Athoracophorus bitentaculatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  2. ^ Morand S. & Barker G. M. (1995). "Hugotdiplogaster neozelandia n. gen., n. sp. (Nematoda: Diplogasteridae), a parasite of the New Zealand endemic slug, Athoracophorus bitentaculatus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832) (Gastropoda: Athoracophoridae)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology 22(1): 109-113. doi:10.1080/03014223.1995.9518027.

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