Peronia anomala explained

Peronia anomala is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae. It is the most recently discovered species of the genus of Peronia, found in the Red Sea in 1934.^[1]

Description

The sea-slug has a small pleural tooth 54μ wide, described by Labbé as "a bit like P. verruclata". Their size ranged from 10 to 5 mm in length and they have a very contacted body, almost globular.^[2] They also have thin integuments and a slightly pigmented pleural cavity.

Distribution

P. anomala lives in a marine biome sea habitat.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Benoit Dayrat. anomala . Catalogue of Specific Names . 2015-05-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20100615225938/http://campillos.ucmerced.edu/%7Ebdayrat/OnchidiidaeSpecificNamesAC.html. 15 June 2010. dead.
2. Les Silicodermés Labbé du Museum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris . Labbé . Alphonse . 15 April 1934 . Annales de l'Institut Océanographique . 2015-05-18 . 14 . 173-246 [195]. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100615232301/http://campillos.ucmerced.edu/~bdayrat/Onchidiidae%20Website/Onchidiids%20Scanned%20Articles/Labbe1934.pdf . 15 June 2010 .
3. Web site: Peronia anomala – Information on Peronia anomala – Encyclopedia of Life. Encyclopedia of Life. 2015-05-18.