Scaphis atra is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.[1]

Scaphis atra
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Scaphis
Species:
S. atra
Binomial name
Scaphis atra
(Lesson, 1830)
Synonyms[1]
  • Onchidella nigra Gray, 1850 (nigra was a lapsus for atra, both adjectives meaning black in Latin.)
  • Onchidium ater Lesson, 1830

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Distribution

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References

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  1. ^ a b Scaphis atra (Lesson, 1830). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 January 2011.
  • Dayrat B. (2009). "Review of the current knowledge of the systematics of Onchidiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) with a checklist of nominal species". Zootaxa. 2068: 1–26. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2068.1.1., preview.