Tantulum elegans is a species of freshwater slug, an aquatic shell-less gastropod mollusk within the clade Acochlidiacea.
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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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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]
In 2005, Tantulidae was classified as the only family within the superfamily Hedylopsoidea in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi.[5]
According to Schrödl & Neusser (2010)[1] Tantulidae is in the clade Hedylopsacea.[1]
This species occurs in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. It was collected at an altitude of 411.5 m.[3]
Tantulum elegans are sequential hermaphrodites.[6]