Onchidium stuxbergi

Onchidium stuxbergi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Systellommatophora
Family:	Onchidiidae
Genus:	Onchidium
Species:	O. stuxbergi
Binomial name
	Onchidium stuxbergi; (Westerlund, 1883)
Synonyms[1]
	Elophilus ajuthiae Labbé, 1935[2]; Labbella ajuthiae (Labbé, 1935); Onchidium nigrum Plate, 1893; Onchidium pallidipes (Tapparone Canefri, 1889); Oncidium nigrum Plate, 1893; Oncidium pallidipes Tapparone Canefri, 1889; Oncis stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883); Platevindex stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883); Vaginulus stuxbergi Westerlund, 1883

Onchidium stuxbergi is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less brackish water pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidiidae.[3]

Distribution

From north-eastern India (West Bengal) to the Philippines, including Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, eastern Borneo, and China.[3]

Slug has long eye tentacles and fully retractable, central papilla with three dorsal eyes. The foot is bright orange.[3]

Bouchet, P. (2017). Onchidium stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=956699 on 2017-11-01
(in French) Labbé A. (1935). "Sur Une Forme Nouvelle De Silicodermé Elophius ajuthiae nov. gen. nov. sp.". Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France, Société zoologique de France 60: 312–317.
Dayrat, Benoît; Goulding, Tricia C.; Apte, Deepak; Bhave, Vishal; Comendador, Joseph; Quang, Ngô Xuân; Tan, Siong Kiat; Tan, Shau Hwai (24 November 2016). "Integrative taxonomy of the genus Onchidium Buchannan, 1800 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae)". ZooKeys (636): 1–40. doi:10.3897/zookeys.636.8879. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 5126514. PMID 27917062.

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