Oxynoe viridis

Oxynoe viridis is a species of small sea snail or sea slug, a bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Oxynoidae.

Oxynoe viridis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
Informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
clade Oxynoacea
Superfamily:
Oxynooidea
Family:
Oxynoidae
Genus:
Oxynoe
Species:
O. viridis
Binomial name
Oxynoe viridis
(Pease, 1861)[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Egypt, Taiwan and Turkey.[2]

The type locality for this species is "Sandwich Islands", now Hawaiian Islands.[3]

Description

The body is oval or ovate, dorsal region elevated, lateral lobes regular in shape, outline of the edges convex, not meeting; tentacles well-developed, grooved and truncated; eyes immersed immediately behind the tentacles; foot linear, adapted for clasping seaweed; the whole upper surface garnished with more or less numerous cirrigerous appendages. Tail is long, compressed and lance-pointed. Color: grass green, mottled with darker, sometimes dotted minutely with brown, or a few blue spots margined with black along the edge of the lateral lobes and on the neck.[4]

The shell is thin, pellucid, fragile, white, slightly convolute, obliquely finely striate, left side slightly inflated. The aperture is large, open widely. The outer lip is disjoined from the apex, very slightly produced posteriorly and truncate. The inner lip is slightly callous.[4]

References

This article incorporates oublic domain text from the reference .[4]

  1. Pease W. H. (1861). "Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Pacific Islands". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 242-247.
  2. http://www.nudipixel.net/species/oxynoe_viridis/
  3. Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
  4. Pilsbry H. A. (1895-1896). Manual of Conchology. Volume 16. Philinidae, Gastropteridae, Aglajidae, Aplysiidae, Oxynoeidae, Runcinidae, Umbraculidae, Pleurobranchidae. page 165, plate 11, figure 51-55.
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