Wallaconchis is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae.
| Wallaconchis | |
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| Wallaconchis sinanui | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Systellommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Onchidioidea |
| Family: | Onchidiidae |
| Genus: | Wallaconchis Goulding & Dayrat, 2018 |
| Type species | |
| Wallaconchis sinanui Goulding & Dayrat, 2018 | |
They live in the intertidal zone near mangrove trees on coral rubble, sand, sandy mud, or rocks.[2]
Species
editAccording to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species are part of the genus Wallaconchis:[1]
- Wallaconchis achleitneri Goulding, 2018
- Wallaconchis ater (Lesson, 1831)
- Wallaconchis buetschlii (Stantschinsky, 1907)
- Wallaconchis comendadori Goulding & Dayrat, 2018
- Wallaconchis gracilis (Stantschinsky, 1907)
- Wallaconchis graniferus (Semper, 1880)
- Wallaconchisx melanesiensis Goulding & Dayrat, 2018
- Wallaconchis nangkauriensis (Plate, 1893)
- Wallaconchis sinanui Goulding & Dayrat, 2018
- Wallaconchis uncinus Goulding & Dayrat, 2018
- Nomen dubium
- Wallaconchis fungiformis (Stantschinsky, 1907)
- Wallaconchis ovalis (C. Semper, 1880)
- Wallaconchis simrothi (Plate, 1893)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Wallaconchis atra (Lesson, 1831): synonym of Wallaconchis ater (Lesson, 1831)
- Wallaconchis fungiforme (Stantschinsky, 1907): synonym of Wallaconchis fungiformis (Stantschinsky, 1907) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
- Wallaconchis gracile (Stantschinsky, 1907): synonym of Wallaconchis gracilis (Stantschinsky, 1907) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
- Wallaconchis graniferum (C. Semper, 1880): synonym of Wallaconchis graniferus (C. Semper, 1880) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
- Wallaconchis nangkauriense (Plate, 1893): synonym of Wallaconchis nangkauriensis (Plate, 1893) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
References
edit- ^ a b Wallaconchis Goulding & Dayrat, 2018. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 June 2021.
- ^ Goulding, Tricia C.; Khalil, Munawar; Tan, Shau Hwai; Dayrat, Benoît (6 April 2018). "Integrative taxonomy of a new and highly-diverse genus of onchidiid slugs from the Coral Triangle (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae)". ZooKeys (763): 1–111. doi:10.3897/zookeys.763.21252. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 5996013. PMID 29896045.
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