Tantulum elegans

Tantulum elegans is a species of freshwater slug, an aquatic shell-less gastropod mollusk within the clade Acochlidiacea.

Tantulum elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Acochlidiacea
clade Hedylopsacea
Family:
Tantulidae

Rankin, 1979
Genus:
Tantulum

Rankin, 1979
Species:
T. elegans
Binomial name
Tantulum elegans
Rankin, 1979

This species has no shell. The maximum recorded length is 2 mm.

Tantulum elegans is the only species in the genus Tantulum, and that is in turn the only genus in the family Tantulidae.

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