Palliopodex
| Palliopodex | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Athoracophoridae |
| Subfamily: | Athoracophorinae |
| Genus: | Palliopodex Burton, 1963 |
| Species: | P. verrucosus
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| Binomial name | |
| Palliopodex verrucosus (Simroth, 1889)
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Palliopodex verrucosus is a leaf-veined slug, an air-breathing land slug or terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Athoracophoridae. It is endemic to New Zealand's subantarctic Auckland Islands. It is the only species in the genus Palliopodex[1]
References
- ^ Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2026). "Palliopodex D. W. Burton, 1963". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 5 March 2026.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Burton, D.W. (1963). "New Zealand Land Slugs—Part 2". Tuatara. 11 (2): 90.