Onchidium typhae

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Onchidium typhae is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less brackish water pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.{{WRMS species|446232|Onchidium typhae Buchannan, 1800||30 March 2010}}

Distribution

Onchidium typhae is found from north-eastern India (West Bengal) to the Philippines, including Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, eastern Borneo, and China.{{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}}

Ecology

Onchidium typhae was formerly considered to live in fresh water; however, the Chao Phraya River that the species was collected from is under tidal influence year round, and the species is now recognized to be a brackish water species.

References

Category:Onchidiidae

Category:Gastropods described in 1800