''Acochlidium fijiiensis'' is a species of
freshwater
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include non-salty mi ...
slug
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less Terrestrial mollusc, terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced ...
, an aquatic
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
within the family
Acochlidiidae
Acochlidiidae are a taxonomic family of shell-less freshwater gastropods (one of them '' Palliohedyle weberi'' lives in brackish water),Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: ...
.
This species lives in two rivers on
Fiji
Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...
.
[Rudman W. B. (23 March 2010). "''Acochlidium fijiiensis'' Haynes & Kenchington, 1991". ''Sea Slug Forum''. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/acocfiji accessed 23 may 2010.]
References
Further reading
* Haase M. & Wawra E. (1996). "The genital system of ''Acochlidium fijiense'' (Opisthobranchia: Acochlidioidea) and its inferred function". ''
Malacologia
''Malacologia'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of malacology, the study of mollusks. The journal publishes articles in the fields of molluscan systematics, ecology, population ecology, genetics, molecular genetics, evolution, an ...
'' 38: 143-151.
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External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110727113118/http://www.naturefiji.org/endspecies.php?info=Acochlidium%20fijiense
Acochlidiidae
Gastropods described in 1991
Molluscs of Oceania
Freshwater molluscs of Oceania
Fauna of Fiji
Species described in 1991
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