Onchidella floridana

Onchidella floridana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Systellommatophora
Family:	Onchidiidae
Genus:	Onchidella
Species:	O. floridana
Binomial name
	Onchidella floridana; (Dall, 1885)
Synonyms
	Onchidium floridanum Dall, 1885 ; Onchidium transatlanticum Heilprin, 1889 ; Onchidium trans-atlanticum Heilprin, 1889 ;

Onchidella floridana is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.^[1]

Distribution and habitat[edit]

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. And was once ubiquitous in and around the shallow waters - intertidal zones - of Bermuda. Never located on the rugged, storm-tossed Atlantic Ocean side of the Island. Observed, studied & photographed by graduate student(s) attending Marine Ecology Summer Program at Bermuda Biological Station in 1985.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Onchidella floridana (Dall, 1885). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 January 2011.

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
Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas

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[WoRMS-1] Onchidella floridana (Dall, 1885). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 January 2011.

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