Onchidium

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Genus of gastropods

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::summary Genus of gastropods ::

| image = Onchidium melakense (10.3897-zookeys.892.39524) Figure 6.jpg | image_caption = Live animals of Onchidium melakense | taxon = Onchidium | authority = Buchannan, 1800 |type_species= Onchidium typhae Buchannan, 1800 |synonyms=

  • Elophilus Labbé, 1935 (invalid: junior homonym of Elophilus Meigen, 1803 [Diptera]; Labbella is a replacement name)
  • Labbella Starobogatov, 1970
  • Oncidium (incorrect subsequent spelling by Agassiz (1846))

Onchidium is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae.

Species

Some authors recognize only four species in the genus. The World Register of Marine Species lists six species as accepted.

References

  • Starobogatov, Y. I. (1970). Fauna Molliuskov i Zoogeograficheskoe Raionirovanie Kontinental'nykh Vodoemov Zemnogo Shara [The Molluscan Fauna and Zoogeographical Zoning of the Continental Water Bodies of the World]. 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

References

  1. Buchannan, F. 1800: An account of the ''Onchidium'', a new genus of the class of Vermes, found in Bengal. ''Transactions of the Linnean Society'', '''5''': 132-134, tab. V. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/753677 BHL]
  2. (2019-11-27). "A new species and new records of Onchidium slugs (Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae) in South-East Asia". ZooKeys.
  3. (2016-11-24). "Integrative taxonomy of the genus Onchidium Buchannan, 1800 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae)". ZooKeys.
  4. "Onchidium".
  5. (27 November 2019). "A new species and new records of Onchidium slugs (Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae) in South-East Asia". ZooKeys.

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