Wallaconchis Explained
Wallaconchis is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae.
They live in the intertidal zone near mangrove trees on coral rubble, sand, sandy mud, or rocks.[1]
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species are part of the genus Wallaconchis:
- Wallaconchis achleitneri Goulding, 2018
- Wallaconchis ater (Lesson, 1831)
- Wallaconchis buetschlii (Stantschinsky, 1907)
- Wallaconchis comendadori Goulding & Dayrat, 2018
- Wallaconchis gracilis (Stantschinsky, 1907)
- Wallaconchis graniferus (Semper, 1880)
- Wallaconchisx melanesiensis Goulding & Dayrat, 2018
- Wallaconchis nangkauriensis (Plate, 1893)
- Wallaconchis sinanui Goulding & Dayrat, 2018
- Wallaconchis uncinus Goulding & Dayrat, 2018
- Nomen dubium:
- Wallaconchis fungiformis (Stantschinsky, 1907)
- Wallaconchis ovalis (C. Semper, 1880)
- Wallaconchis simrothi (Plate, 1893)
- Species brought into synonymy:
- Wallaconchis atra (Lesson, 1831): synonym of Wallaconchis ater (Lesson, 1831)
- Wallaconchis fungiforme (Stantschinsky, 1907): synonym of Wallaconchis fungiformis (Stantschinsky, 1907) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
- Wallaconchis gracile (Stantschinsky, 1907): synonym of Wallaconchis gracilis (Stantschinsky, 1907) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
- Wallaconchis graniferum (C. Semper, 1880): synonym of Wallaconchis graniferus (C. Semper, 1880) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
- Wallaconchis nangkauriense (Plate, 1893): synonym of Wallaconchis nangkauriensis (Plate, 1893) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
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Notes and References
- Goulding. Tricia C.. Khalil. Munawar. Tan. Shau Hwai. Dayrat. Benoît. 2018-04-06. Integrative taxonomy of a new and highly-diverse genus of onchidiid slugs from the Coral Triangle (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae). ZooKeys. en. 763. 1–111. 10.3897/zookeys.763.21252. 1313-2970. 5996013. 29896045. free.
