Onchidium
Genus of gastropods
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Onchidium is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae.
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| Onchidium | |
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| Live animals of Onchidium melakense | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Systellommatophora |
| Family: | Onchidiidae |
| Genus: | Onchidium Buchannan, 1800[1] |
| Type species | |
| Onchidium typhae Buchannan, 1800 | |
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Species
Some authors recognize only four species in the genus.[2][3] The World Register of Marine Species lists six species as accepted.[4]
- Onchidium melakense Dayrat & Goulding, 2019[2]
- Onchidium multiradiatum C. Semper, 1882
- Onchidium nebulosum C. Semper, 1880
- Onchidium reevesii (J. E. Gray, 1850)[3]
- Onchidium stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)[3]
- Onchidium typhae Buchannan, 1800[3]
Onchidium multinotatum, originally described within the genus in 1883, is regarded as a nomen dubium.[5]
