Onchidium

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]

Onchidium
Live animals of Onchidium melakense
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Onchidium

Buchannan, 1800[1]
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))

Species

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]

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. BHL
  2. Dayrat, Benoît; Goulding, Tricia C.; Khalil, Munawar; Apte, Deepak; Tan, Shau Hwai (27 November 2019). "A new species and new records of Onchidium slugs (Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae) in South-East Asia". ZooKeys (892): 27–58. doi:10.3897/zookeys.892.39524. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6892962. PMID 31824202.
  3. Dayrat, Benoît; Goulding, Tricia C.; Apte, Deepak; Bhave, Vishal; Comendador, Joseph; Quang, Ngô Xuân; Tan, Siong Kiat; Tan, Shau Hwai (24 November 2016). "Integrative taxonomy of the genus Onchidium Buchannan, 1800 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae)". ZooKeys (636): 1–40. doi:10.3897/zookeys.636.8879. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 5126514. PMID 27917062.
  4. Dayrat, Benoît; Goulding, Tricia C.; Khalil, Munawar; Apte, Deepak; Tan, Shau Hwai (27 November 2019). "A new species and new records of Onchidium slugs (Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae) in South-East Asia". ZooKeys (892): 27–58. doi:10.3897/zookeys.892.39524. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6892962. PMID 31824202.
  • 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

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.

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