Labbella ajuthiae

Labbella ajuthiae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Systellommatophora
Superfamily: Onchidioidea
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Labbella
Species: L. ajuthiae
Binomial name
Labbella ajuthiae
(Labbé, 1935)[1]
Synonyms

Elophilus ajuthiae Labbé, 1935 [2]

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

Contents

Description

Distribution

Ecology

Elophilus ajuthiae is the one of two species from Onchidiidae, that lives in brackish water.[2] It can also live in freshwater.[2] The only other brackish water species in the Onchidiidae is Onchidium typhae.[2]

References

  1. ^ (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. ^ a b c d 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. preview
  3. ^ Labbella ajuthiae (Labbé, 1935).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=509725  on 30 September 2010.