Onchidium

Onchidium
Onchidium
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
Buchanan, 1800[1]
Synonyms[2]

Oncidium Agassiz, 1846

Onchidium is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Onchidium : [2]

Synonymized species 

References

  • SEM images of its radula can be found at Thompson; Bebbington (1973). Malacologia 14: 147–165. .
  1. ^ Buchanan (1800). Trans. Linn. Soc. [London] 5: 132.
  2. ^ a b WoRMS: Onchidium; accessed : 13 January 2011
  3. ^ Dayrat, B. (2010). Onchidium celticum Cuvier in Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1832. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446185 on 2010-05-18
  • 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