Onchidella flavescens

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Onchidella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Onchidella
Gray, 1850
Species

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Onchidella is a genus of small, air-breathing sea slugs, shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Onchidiidae.

For more information on this unusual family of air-breathing sea slugs, see Onchidiidae.

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

This sea slug is found in the mid intertidal zone.

[edit] Description

This species, like all others in the family, does not have a shell, and yet has the general appearance of a limpet. Its dorsal surface has distant unequal round papillae. There is no free-swimming stage.

The body coloration is mainly yellow, with grey or black mottling.

The length is up to 8 mm.

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