Onchidium

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}}

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| image = Onchidium melakense (10.3897-zookeys.892.39524) Figure 6.jpg

| image_caption = Live animals of Onchidium melakense

| taxon = Onchidium

| authority = Buchannan, 1800Buchannan, F. 1800: An account of the Onchidium, a new genus of the class of Vermes, found in Bengal. Transactions of the Linnean Society, 5: 132-134, tab. V. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/753677 BHL]

|type_species= Onchidium typhae Buchannan, 1800

|synonyms=

  • Elophilus Labbé, 1935 (invalid: junior homonym of Elophilus Meigen, 1803 [Diptera]; Labbella is a replacement name)
  • Labbella Starobogatov, 1970
  • Oncidium (incorrect subsequent spelling by Agassiz (1846))

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

Species

Some authors recognize only four species in the genus.{{Cite journal |last1=Dayrat |first1=Benoît |last2=Goulding |first2=Tricia C. |last3=Khalil |first3=Munawar |last4=Apte |first4=Deepak |last5=Tan |first5=Shau Hwai |date=2019-11-27 |title=A new species and new records of Onchidium slugs (Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae) in South-East Asia |url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/39524/ |journal=ZooKeys |language=en |issue=892 |pages=27–58 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.892.39524 |issn=1313-2970 |pmc=6892962 |pmid=31824202 |doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal |last1=Dayrat |first1=Benoît |last2=Goulding |first2=Tricia C. |last3=Apte |first3=Deepak |last4=Bhave |first4=Vishal |last5=Comendador |first5=Joseph |last6=Quang |first6=Ngô Xuân |last7=Tan |first7=Siong Kiat |last8=Tan |first8=Shau Hwai |date=2016-11-24 |title=Integrative taxonomy of the genus Onchidium Buchannan, 1800 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae) |url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/8879/ |journal=ZooKeys |language=en |issue=636 |pages=1–40 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.636.8879 |issn=1313-2970 |pmc=5126514 |pmid=27917062 |doi-access=free}} The World Register of Marine Species lists six species as accepted.{{cite WoRMS|title=Onchidium|id=206430|accessdate=30 August 2024}}

Onchidium multinotatum, originally described within the genus in 1883, is regarded as a nomen dubium.{{Cite journal|last1=Dayrat|first1=Benoît|last2=Goulding|first2=Tricia C.|last3=Khalil|first3=Munawar|last4=Apte|first4=Deepak|last5=Tan|first5=Shau Hwai|date=27 November 2019|title=A new species and new records of Onchidium slugs (Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae) in South-East Asia|url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/39524/|journal=ZooKeys|language=en|issue=892|pages=27–58|doi=10.3897/zookeys.892.39524|issn=1313-2970|pmc=6892962|pmid=31824202|doi-access=free}}

References

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  • Starobogatov, Y. I. (1970). Fauna Molliuskov i Zoogeograficheskoe Raionirovanie Kontinental'nykh Vodoemov Zemnogo Shara [The Molluscan Fauna and Zoogeographical Zoning of the Continental Water Bodies of the World]. Nauka. Leningrad. 372 p., 12 tables
  • Labbé A. (1935). Sur une forme nouvelle de Silicoderme, Elophilus ajuthiae nov. gen. nov. sp. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 60: 312-317