Onchidium stuxbergi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Onchidium
Species:
O. stuxbergi
Binomial name
Onchidium stuxbergi
(Westerlund, 1883)
Synonyms[1]

Elophilus ajuthiae Labbé, 1935[2]
Labbella ajuthiae (Labbé, 1935)
Onchidium nigrum Plate, 1893
Oncidium nigrum Plate, 1893
Oncis stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)
Platevindex stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)
Vaginulus stuxbergi Westerlund, 1883

Onchidium stuxbergi is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less brackish water pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.[3]

Distribution

From north-eastern India (West Bengal) to the Philippines, including Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, eastern Borneo, and China.[3]

Description

Slug has long eye tentacles and fully retractable, central papilla with three dorsal eyes. The foot is bright orange.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2017). Onchidium stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=956699 on 2017-11-01
  2. ↑ (in French) Labbé A. (1935). "Sur Une Forme Nouvelle De Silicodermé Elophius ajuthiae nov. gen. nov. sp.". Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France, Société zoologique de France 60: 312–317.
  3. 1 2 3 Dayrat, Benoît; Goulding, Tricia C.; Apte, Deepak; Bhave, Vishal; Comendador, Joseph; Quang, Ngô Xuân; Tan, Siong Kiat; Tan, Shau Hwai (24 November 2016). "Integrative taxonomy of the genus Onchidium Buchannan, 1800 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae)". ZooKeys (636): 1–40. doi:10.3897/zookeys.636.8879. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 5126514. PMID 27917062.


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