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Paromoionchis tumidus

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Paromoionchis tumidus
Dorsal view of Paromoionchis tumidus in the mud (head is on the right).
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Paromoionchis
Species:
P. tumidus
Binomial name
Paromoionchis tumidus
(Semper, 1880)

Paromoionchis tumidus is a species of small, air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidiidae.[1]

Distribution

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Paromoionchis tumidus is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific from Japan in the north, to Hong Kong, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, the Andaman Islands, Indonesia, and Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland).[1]

Synonymized names

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The following names have been synonymized with Paromoionchis tumidus:[1]

  • Onchidium samarense Semper, 1880
  • Onchidium mertoni Simroth, 1918
  • Onchidium hongkongense Britton, 1984

References

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  1. ^ a b c Dayrat, Benoît; Goulding, Tricia C.; Khalil, Munawar; Apte, Deepak; Bourke, Adam J.; Comendador, Joseph; Tan, Shau Hwai (22 February 2019). "A new genus and three new species of mangrove slugs from the Indo-West Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Euthyneura: Onchidiidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (500). doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.500. ISSN 2118-9773.
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