Onchidium stuxbergi is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less brackish water pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidiidae.[3]

Onchidium stuxbergi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Onchidium
Species:
O. stuxbergi
Binomial name
Onchidium stuxbergi
(Westerlund, 1883)
Synonyms[2]

Elophilus ajuthiae Labbé, 1935[1]
Labbella ajuthiae (Labbé, 1935)
Onchidium nigrum Plate, 1893
Onchidium pallidipes (Tapparone Canefri, 1889)
Oncidium nigrum Plate, 1893
Oncidium pallidipes Tapparone Canefri, 1889
Oncis stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)
Platevindex stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)
Vaginulus stuxbergi Westerlund, 1883

Distribution

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From north-eastern India (West Bengal) to the Philippines, including Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, eastern Borneo, and China.[3]

Description

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Slug has long eye tentacles and fully retractable, central papilla with three dorsal eyes. The foot is bright orange.[3]

References

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  1. ^ (in French) Labbé A. (1935). "Sur Une Forme Nouvelle De Silicodermé Elophius ajuthiae nov. gen. nov. sp.". Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France, Société zoologique de France 60: 312–317.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2017). Onchidium stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=956699 on 2017-11-01
  3. ^ a b c Dayrat, Benoît; Goulding, Tricia C.; Apte, Deepak; Bhave, Vishal; Comendador, Joseph; Quang, Ngô Xuân; Tan, Siong Kiat; Tan, Shau Hwai (24 November 2016). "Integrative taxonomy of the genus Onchidium Buchannan, 1800 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae)". ZooKeys (636): 1–40. doi:10.3897/zookeys.636.8879. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 5126514. PMID 27917062.