Onchidella celtica

Onchidella celtica
Onchidella celtica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Systellommatophora
Superfamily: Onchidioidea
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Onchidella
Species: O. celtica
Binomial name
Onchidella celtica
(Cuvier, 1817[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Onchidella remanei Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1956
  • Onchidium celticum Cuvier in Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1832
  • Onchidium nanum Philippi, 1844
  • Onchidium tuberculatum Taslé, 1870
  • Peronia parthenopeia delle Chiaje, 1841

Onchidella celtica is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.[2]

Complete nucleotide sequence of mitochondrial genome of Onchidella celtica is available since 2008.[3]

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Description

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

Habitat

This air-breathing sea slug lives in the intertidal zone on rocky shorelines.

References

  1. ^ 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).
  2. ^ a b Onchidella celtica (Cuvier, 1817). 4 January 2011. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140626.
  3. ^ 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
  • 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.

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