Biology:Atrichotoxon
Atrichotoxon is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicarionidae. They are endemic to East Usambara and Pare Mountains of Tanzania. The Genus was formed in 1910 by renowned malacologist Heinrich Simroth Atrichotoxon is Greek for "without a hairy dart" as these snails are classified by their unique dart sacks. A. puntacatum is described as having no darts or dart stumps within it's dart sac. The original specimen found by Simroth of A. puntacatum has been lost and no others have been identified since.[1] The Validity of A. puntacatum is potentially dubious. Atrichotoxon usambarense was described in 1961 by Bernard Verdcourt
Species
Species within the genus Atrichotoxon include:
- Atrichotoxon punctatum* Atrichotoxon usambarense
References
- ↑ Rowson, Ben; Paustian, Megan; Goethem, Jackie Van (2017-12-18). "New species and records of terrestrial slugs from East Africa (Gastropoda, Urocyclidae, Veronicellidae, Agriolimacidae)" (in en). ZooKeys (723): 11–42. doi:10.3897/zookeys.723.21817. ISSN 1313-2970. PMID 29362525. Bibcode: 2017ZooK..723...11R.
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