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Onchidella

Summary

Onchidella is a genus of small, air-breathing sea slugs, shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Onchidiidae.

Onchidella
Onchidella nigricans
Onchidella sp. at Murrays Bay, Auckland, New Zealand
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Onchidella
Gray, 1850
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Arctonchis Dall, 1905
  • Occidentella Hoffmann, 1929
  • Oncidiella Crosse & P. Fischer, 1878
  • Peronella Mörch, 1863 (Invalid: junior homonym of Peronella Gray, 1855 [Echinodermata])
  • Peroniella Starobogatov, 1976

Species edit

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Onchidella :[1]

Synonymized species
  • Onchidella capensis - South Africa  : synonym of Onchidella maculata (Plate, 1893)
  • Onchidella chilensis (Huppé in Gay, 1854) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOnchidella marginata (Couthouy in Gould, 1852)
  • Onchidella condoriana Rochebrune, 1882 : synonym of Oncis stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)
  • Onchidella griseofusca Tapparone-Canefri, 1874 accepted as Onchidium griseofuscum (Tapparone-Canefri, 1874)
  • Onchidella griseo-fusca Tapparone Canefri, 1874 accepted as Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorOnchidium griseofuscum (Tapparone Canefri, 1874)
  • Onchidella hardwickii Gray, 1850 accepted as Onchidium hardwickii (Gray, 1850)
  • Onchidella hildae (Hoffmann, 1928): synonym of Onchidella binneyi Stearns, 1894
  • Onchidella irrorata (Gould, 1852) accepted as Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
  • Onchidella juanfernandeziana (Wissel, 1898) accepted as Onchidella marginata (Couthouy in Gould, 1852)
  • Onchidella nigra Gray, 1850 accepted as Scaphis atra (Lesson, 1830)
  • Onchidella obscura (Plate, 1893) accepted as Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
  • Onchidella patelloida (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) accepted as Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
  • Onchidella patelloides (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) : synonym of Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
  • Onchidella pulchella Watson, 1925 accepted as Onchidella maculata (Plate, 1893)
  • Onchidella reevesii Reeve in J.E. Gray, 1850 accepted as Paraoncidium reevesii (Reeve in J.E. Gray, 1850)
  • Onchidella remanei Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1956 accepted as Onchidella celtica (Cuvier, 1817)

References edit

 
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  1. ^ a b WoRMS : Onchidella; accessed : 30 September 2010
  • "Onchidella". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • G M Branch, C L Griffiths, M L Branch, & L E Beckley, Two Oceans, A Guide to the Marine Life of Southern Africa, David Philip Publishers (Pty) Ltd, Claremont, South Africa 1994 ISBN 0-86486-250-4
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Onchidella celtica
  • 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