Onchidium typhae

Onchidium typhae is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less brackish water pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.[1]

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

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 Labbella ajuthiae.[2]

References
  1. Onchidium typhae Buchannan, 1800. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 March 2010.
  2. 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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