Onchidium stuxbergi

Onchidium stuxbergi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Systellommatophora
Superfamily: Onchidioidea
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Onchidium
Species: O. stuxbergi
Binomial name
Onchidium stuxbergi
(Westerlund, 1883)
Synonyms[1]

Elophilus ajuthiae Labbé, 1935[2]
Labbella ajuthiae (Labbé, 1935)
Onchidium nigrum Plate, 1893
Oncidium nigrum Plate, 1893
Oncis stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)
Platevindex stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)
Vaginulus stuxbergi Westerlund, 1883

Oncis stuxbergi is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less brackish water pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.

Distribution

Thailand, Borneo, ...

Ecology

Onchidium stuxbergi is the one of two species from Onchidiidae, that lives in brackish water.[3] It can also live in freshwater.[3] The only other brackish water species in the Onchidiidae is Onchidium typhae.[3]

References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2017). Onchidium stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=956699 on 2017-11-01
  2. (in French) Labbé A. (1935). "Sur Une Forme Nouvelle De Silicodermé Elophius ajuthiae nov. gen. nov. sp.". Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France, Société zoologique de France 60: 312-317.
  3. 1 2 3 Dayrat B. (2009) "Review of the current knowledge of the systematics of Onchidiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) with a checklist of nominal species". Zootaxa 2068: 1-26. preview


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