Onchidium | |
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Live animals of Onchidium melakense | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Systellommatophora |
Family: | Onchidiidae |
Genus: |
Onchidium Buchannan, 1800 [1] |
Type species | |
Onchidium typhae Buchannan, 1800 | |
Synonyms | |
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Onchidium is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae. There are only four species currently recognized in the genus. [2] [3]
The following species with valid names are included within the genus Onchidium :
Onchidium multinotatum, originally described within the genus in 1883, is regarded as a nomen dubium. [4]
SEM images of the radula can be found at Thompson, T.E.; Bebbington, A. (1973). "Scanning electron microscope studies of gastropod radulae". Malacologia. 14: 147–165.
Onchidium | |
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Live animals of Onchidium melakense | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Systellommatophora |
Family: | Onchidiidae |
Genus: |
Onchidium Buchannan, 1800 [1] |
Type species | |
Onchidium typhae Buchannan, 1800 | |
Synonyms | |
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Onchidium is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae. There are only four species currently recognized in the genus. [2] [3]
The following species with valid names are included within the genus Onchidium :
Onchidium multinotatum, originally described within the genus in 1883, is regarded as a nomen dubium. [4]
SEM images of the radula can be found at Thompson, T.E.; Bebbington, A. (1973). "Scanning electron microscope studies of gastropod radulae". Malacologia. 14: 147–165.