| Tantulum elegans | |
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| Family: | Tantulidae Rankin, 1979
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| Genus: | Tantulum Rankin, 1979
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| Species: | T. elegans
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| Tantulum elegans Rankin, 1979[2]
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Tantulum elegans is a species of freshwater slug, an aquatic shell-less gastropod mollusk within the clade Acochlidiacea.
This species has no shell.[2] The maximum recorded length is 2 mm.[3]
Tantulum elegans is the only species in the genus Tantulum, and that is in turn the only genus in the family Tantulidae.[4]
- ^ Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 124-154. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00544.x.
- ^ a b Rankin J. J. (1979). "A freshwater shell-less mollusc from the Caribbean: structure, biotics, and contribution to a new understanding of the Acochlidioidea". Life Sciences Contributions, Royal Ontario Museum 116: 123 pp.
- ^ Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
- ^ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.