Onchidium Explained

Onchidium is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae. There are only four species currently recognized in the genus.^{[1] [2]}

Species

The following species with valid names are included within the genus Onchidium :

• Onchidium melakense Dayrat & Goulding, 2019
• Onchidium multiradiatum C. Semper, 1882
• Onchidium nebulosum C. Semper, 1880
• Onchidium reevesii (J. E. Gray, 1850)
• Onchidium stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)
• Onchidium typhae Buchannan, 1800

Onchidium multinotatum, originally described within the genus in 1883, is regarded as a nomen dubium.^[3]

References

• Starobogatov, Y. I. (1970). Fauna Molliuskov i Zoogeograficheskoe Raionirovanie Kontinental'nykh Vodoemov Zemnogo Shara [The Molluscan Fauna and Zoogeographical Zoning of the Continental Water Bodies of the World]. Nauka. Leningrad. 372 p., 12 tables
• Labbé A. (1935). Sur une forme nouvelle de Silicoderme, Elophilus ajuthiae nov. gen. nov. sp. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 60: 312-317

External links

• Buchannan, F. (1800). An account of the Onchidium, a new genus of the class of vermes, found in Bengal. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 5: 132–134, pl. 5.
• Dayrat B., Goulding T.C., Apte D., Bhave V., Comendador J., Quang N.X., Tan S.K. & Tan S.H. (2016). Integrative taxonomy of the genus Onchidium Buchannan, 1800 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae). ZooKeys. 636: 1-40

Notes and References

1. Dayrat. Benoît. Goulding. Tricia C.. Khalil. Munawar. Apte. Deepak. Tan. Shau Hwai. 2019-11-27. A new species and new records of Onchidium slugs (Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae) in South-East Asia. ZooKeys. en. 892. 27–58. 10.3897/zookeys.892.39524. 1313-2970. 6892962. 31824202. free.
2. Dayrat. Benoît. Goulding. Tricia C.. Apte. Deepak. Bhave. Vishal. Comendador. Joseph. Quang. Ngô Xuân. Tan. Siong Kiat. Tan. Shau Hwai. 2016-11-24. Integrative taxonomy of the genus Onchidium Buchannan, 1800 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae). ZooKeys. en. 636. 1–40. 10.3897/zookeys.636.8879. 1313-2970. 5126514. 27917062. free.
3. Dayrat. Benoît. Goulding. Tricia C.. Khalil. Munawar. Apte. Deepak. Tan. Shau Hwai. 27 November 2019. A new species and new records of Onchidium slugs (Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae) in South-East Asia. ZooKeys. en. 892. 27–58. 10.3897/zookeys.892.39524. 1313-2970. 6892962. 31824202. free.