Onchidella celtica
Onchidella celtica is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.[2]
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Systellommatophora |
| Family: | Onchidiidae |
| Genus: | Onchidella |
| Species: | O. celtica |
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The complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Onchidella celtica has been available since 2008.[3]
Description
Onchidella celtica is up to 12mm long and its oval body has a deep olive to black colour. The mantle is covered with large tubercles which concealed the head and the foot of the animal when motionless. The eyes are at the tips of two short and thick tentacles and are visible from above when the animal is crawling.[4]
Distribution
This species occurs locally on the East Atlantic coastline, from western Scotland, western England and the Channel Islands, south to Spain and the Azores, including:
- Great Britain
- Coastline of Brittany
Habitat
This air-breathing sea slug lives in the intertidal zone on rocky shorelines. It is exposed on rocky shores at low tides and retreats to crevices when the tide rises.[4]
References
- Cuvier G. (1817). Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Avec figures, dessinées d'après nature. Tome II, contenant les reptiles, les poissons, les mollusques et les annélides. pp. j-xviij [= 1–18], 1–532. Paris. (Deterville).
- Onchidella celtica (Cuvier, 1817). 4 January 2011. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- Grande C., Templado J. & Zardoya R. 2008. Evolution of gastropod mitochondrial genome arrangements. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:61. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-61
- Hayward, Peter J.; Ryland, John S. (2 February 2017), "The Marine Environment of North-West Europe", Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe, Oxford University Press, pp. 1–18, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199549443.003.0001, ISBN 9780199549443
- Dayrat, Benoît 2009, Review of the current knowledge of the systematics of Onchidiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) with a checklist of nominal species. Zootaxa 2068: 1–26.