Onchidium typhae

Onchidium typhae
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. typhae
Binomial name
Onchidium typhae
Buchannan, 1800

Onchidium typhae is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less brackish water pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.[1]

Ecology

Onchidium typhae is the one of two species from Onchiddidae, that lives in brackish water.[2] It can also live in freshwater.[2] The other brackish water species from Onchiddiidae is Labella ajuthiae = Elophilus ajuthiae.[2]

References

  1. Onchidium typhae Buchannan, 1800.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 March 2010.
  2. 1 2 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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