''Onchidium'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
sea slug
Sea slug is a common name for some Marine biology, marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial Slug, slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are Sea snail, sea snails (marine gastropod moll ...
s, shell-less
marine pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
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 ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the
family
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Onchidiidae
Onchidiidae are a family of small, air-breathing sea (and land) slugs. They are shell-less marine (except for two species)preview pulmonate gastropod molluscs. Onchidiidae is the only family within the superfamily Onchidioidea.
These animals a ...
.
Species
Some authors recognize only four species in the genus.
The
World Register of Marine Species
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive catalogue and list of names of marine organisms.
Content
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lists six species as accepted.
* ''
Onchidium melakense''
Dayrat & Goulding, 2019
* ''
Onchidium multiradiatum''
C. Semper, 1882
* ''
Onchidium nebulosum''
C. Semper, 1880
* ''
Onchidium reevesii''
(J. E. Gray, 1850)
* ''
Onchidium stuxbergi''
(Westerlund, 1883)
* ''
Onchidium typhae''
Buchannan, 1800
''Onchidium multinotatum'', originally described within the genus in 1883, is regarded as a ''
nomen dubium
In binomial nomenclature, a ''nomen dubium'' (Latin for "doubtful name", plural ''nomina dubia'') is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application.
Zoology
In case of a ''nomen dubium,'' it may be impossible to determine whether a ...
''.
References
* Starobogatov, Y. I. (1970). Fauna Molliuskov i Zoogeograficheskoe Raionirovanie Kontinental'nykh Vodoemov Zemnogo Shara
Nauka. Leningrad. 372 p., 12 tables
* Labbé A. (1935). Sur une forme nouvelle de Silicoderme, Elophilus ajuthiae nov. gen. nov. sp. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 60: 312-317
External links
Buchannan, F. (1800). An account of the Onchidium, a new genus of the class of vermes, found in Bengal. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 5: 132–134, pl. 5.Dayrat B., Goulding T.C., Apte D., Bhave V., Comendador J., Quang N.X., Tan S.K. & Tan S.H. (2016). Integrative taxonomy of the genus Onchidium Buchannan, 1800 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae). ZooKeys. 636: 1-40
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