Athoracophorinae
Individual of a species of Athoracophorinae from Auckland Island observed in January 2023
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Athoracophoridae
Subfamily: Athoracophorinae
P. Fischer, 1883[1] (1860)
Synonyms[2]
  • Janellidae Gray, 1853

Athoracophorinae, common name the leaf-veined slugs, are a subfamily in the family Athoracophoridae, which are air-breathing, stalk-eyed land slugs, or terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. They are endemic to New Zealand, including its subantarctic islands.

Distribution

Species in this subfamily are endemic to New Zealand, including its subantarctic islands.[3]

Taxonomy

Athoracophorinae is one of two subfamilies in the family Athoracophoridae, which in turn is the only family in the superfamily Athoracophoroidea.[4] The following two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005),[4] that follows the classification of Grimpe & Hoffmann (1925):[5]

Genera

Genera within the subfamily Athoracophorinae include:[6]

References

  1. ^ Fischer, Paul Henri (21 February 1883). Manuel de conchlyliologie et de paléontologie conchlyliologique (in French). Savy, Paris. p. 492.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ "Athoracophorinae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b c Burton D. W. (1982). "How to be sluggish." Tuatara 25(2): 48-63. page 55.
  4. ^ a b Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  5. ^ (in German) Grimpe G. & Hoffmann (1925). "Die Nacktschnecken von Neu-Caledonien, den Loyalty-Inseln und den Neuen-Hebriden." In: Sarasin F. & Roux J. (eds.) Nova Caledonia, A (Zoologie), Band 3, Heft 1-3: 337-476, plates 5-6.
  6. ^ "Molluscabase - Athoracophorinae P. Fischer, 1883 (1860)". www.molluscabase.org. Retrieved 2023-12-03.

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