Onchidella

Onchidella
Onchidella
Onchidella nigricans
Onchidella sp.
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
Gray[disambiguation needed ], 1850
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • Arctonchis Dall, 1905
  • Occidentella Hoffmann, 1929
  • Oncidiella Crosse & P. Fischer, 1878
  • Peroniella Starobogatov, 1976

Onchidella is a genus of small, air-breathing sea slugs, shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod molluscs 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 Onchidella : [1]

Synonymized species 
  • Onchidella binneyi - Mexico : synonym of Onchidella carpenteri (Binney, 1861)
  • Onchidella capensis - South Africa  : synonym of Onchidella maculata (Plate, 1893)
  • Onchidella condoriana Rochebrune, 1882 : synonym of Oncis stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)
  • Onchidella griseofusca Tapparone-Canefri, 1874 accepted as Onchidium griseofuscum (Tapparone-Canefri, 1874)
  • Onchidella hardwickii Gray, 1850 accepted as Onchidium hardwickii (Gray, 1850)
  • Onchidella irrorata (Gould, 1852) accepted as Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
  • Onchidella juanfernandeziana (Wissel, 1898) accepted as Onchidella marginata (Couthouy in Gould, 1852)
  • Onchidella nigra Gray, 1850 accepted as Scaphis atra (Lesson, 1830)
  • Onchidella obscura (Plate, 1893) accepted as Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
  • Onchidella patelloida (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) accepted as Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
  • Onchidella pulchella Watson, 1925 accepted as Onchidella maculata (Plate, 1893)
  • Onchidella obscura Plate, 1893  : synonym of Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
  • Onchidella patelloides (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)  : synonym of Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
  • Onchidella reevesii Reeve in J.E. Gray, 1850 accepted as Paraoncidium reevesii (Reeve in J.E. Gray, 1850)
  • Onchidella remanei Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1956 accepted as Onchidella celtica (Cuvier, 1817)

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