Onchidium typhae
| Onchidium typhae | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Systellommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Onchidioidea |
| Family: | Onchidiidae |
| Genus: | Onchidium |
| Species: | O. typhae |
| Binomial name | |
| Onchidium typhae Buchannan, 1800 | |
Onchidium typhae is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less brackish water pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.[1]
Ecology
Onchidium typhae is the one of two species from Onchiddidae, that lives in brackish water.[2] It can also live in freshwater.[2] The other brackish water species from Onchiddiidae is Labella ajuthiae = Elophilus ajuthiae.[2]
References
- ↑ Onchidium typhae Buchannan, 1800. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 March 2010.
- 1 2 3 Dayrat B. (2009) "Review of the current knowledge of the systematics of Onchidiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) with a checklist of nominal species". Zootaxa 2068: 1-26. preview
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