Onchidium hongkongense

Onchidium hongkongense
Onchidium hongkongense
Dorsal view of Onchidium hongkongense in the mud (head is on the right).
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. hongkongense
Binomial name
Onchidium hongkongense
Britton, 1984[1]

Onchidium hongkongense is a species of small, air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidiidae.

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Distribution

Distribution of Onchidium hongkongense include Hong-Kong and Japan.[2] Its conservation status in Japan is vulnerable.[2]

References

  1. ^ Britton K. M. 1984. The Onchidiacea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) of Hong Kong with a worldwide review of the genera. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 50(3): 179-191. Onchidium hongkongensis is on pages 188-190, figs. 6-7.
  2. ^ a b (Japanese) http://www.jpnrdb.com/search.php?mode=map&q=110504130010628 accessed 1 October 2009.

Further reading

  • Jensen, Kathe R., 1992. Anatomy of Onchidium hongkongensis Britton, 1984. pp. 705-722. In: The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China III (Edited by Brian Morton), Volume 2. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9622092950

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