Peronia Explained

Peronia is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae. These slugs differ from other onchidiid slugs in having branched "gills" on their dorsal side, although these can be retracted.^[1] More than two dozen species of Peronia have been described from the Indo-West Pacific, but a recent revision of the genus determined that 21 of these names are synonyms. Nine species of Peronia are recognized, most of which can differentiated only by examining their internal anatomy or with DNA sequencing.

Species

The following species are species currently recognized within the genus Peronia:

• Peronia anomala Labbé, 1934
• Peronia griffithsi Dayrat & Goulding, 2017
• Peronia madagascariensis (Labbé, 1934)
• Peronia okinawensis Dayrat & Goulding, 2020
• Peronia peronii (Cuvier, 1804)
• Peronia platei (Hoffman, 1928)
• Peronia setoensis Dayrat & Goulding, 2020
• Peronia sydneyensis Dayrat & Goulding, 2020
• Peronia verruculata (Cuvier, 1830)
• Peronia willani Dayrat & Goulding, 2020

Notes and References

1. Dayrat. Benoît. Goulding. Tricia C.. Apte. Deepak. Aslam. Sadar. Bourke. Adam. Comendador. Joseph. Khalil. Munawar. Ngô. Xuân Quảng. Tan. Siong Kiat. Tan. Shau Hwai. 2020-01-10. Systematic revision of the genus Peronia Fleming, 1822 (Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae). ZooKeys. en. 972. 1–224. 10.3897/zookeys.972.52853. 1313-2970. 7544732. 33071542. free. 2020ZooK..972....1D .