Peronia anomala

Peronia anomala
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Systellommatophora
Superfamily: Onchidioidea
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Peronia
Species: P. anomala
Binomial name
Peronia anomala
Labbé, 1934

Peronia anomala is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.[1] It is the most recently discovered species of the genus of Peronia, found in the Red Sea in 1934.[2]

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.[3] They also have thin integuments and a slighly pigmented pleural cavity.

Distribution

P. anomala lives in a marine biome sea habitat.[4]

References

  1. Peronia anomala Labbé, 1934.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 March 2010.
  2. "Benoit Dayrat". campillos.ucmerced.edu. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
  3. Labbé, Alphonse (15 April 1934). "Les Silicodermés Labbé du Museum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris" (PDF). ?: 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2010. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
  4. "Peronia anomala - Information on Peronia anomala - Encyclopedia of Life". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2015-05-18.


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