Onchidium stuxbergi

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

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

Distribution

Thailand, Borneo, ...

Description

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. 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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