Paromoionchis tumidus
Dorsal view of Paromoionchis tumidus 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:
Paromoionchis
Species:
P. tumidus
Binomial name
Paromoionchis tumidus
(Semper, 1880)

Paromoionchis tumidus is a species of small, air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidiidae.[1]

Distribution

Paromoionchis tumidus is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific from Japan in the north, to Hong Kong, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, the Andaman Islands, Indonesia, and Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland).[1]

Synonymized names

The following names have been synonymized with Paromoionchis tumidus:[1]

  • Onchidium samarense Semper, 1880
  • Onchidium mertoni Simroth, 1918
  • Onchidium hongkongense Britton, 1984

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dayrat, Benoît; Goulding, Tricia C.; Khalil, Munawar; Apte, Deepak; Bourke, Adam J.; Comendador, Joseph; Tan, Shau Hwai (22 February 2019). "A new genus and three new species of mangrove slugs from the Indo-West Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Euthyneura: Onchidiidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (500). doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.500. ISSN 2118-9773.


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