Peronia

Peronia is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae.^[1] These slugs differ from other onchidiid slugs in having branched "gills" on their dorsal side, although these can be retracted.^[2] More than two dozen species of Peronia have been described from the Indo-West Pacific, but a recent revision of the genus determined that 21 of these names are synonyms.^[2] Nine species of Peronia are recognized, most of which can differentiated only by examining their internal anatomy or with DNA sequencing.^[2]

Phylum:Mollusca

Class:Gastropoda

Order:Systellommatophora

Family:Onchidiidae

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Peronia
Peronia willani
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Systellommatophora
Family:	Onchidiidae
Genus:	Peronia Fleming, 1822
Synonyms[1]
Eudrastus Gistel, 1848 Onchis Férussac, 1822 Paraperonia Starobogatov, 1976 Quoya Labbé, 1934 Quoyella Starobogatov, 1976 (unnecessary replacement name for Quoya Labbé, 1934, by Starobogatov by Starobogatov treated as a junior homonym of "Quoya Deshayes, 1843"; the latter is in fact an incorrect subsequent spelling of Quoyia Gray, 1839 [Planaxidae])

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