Onchidella celtica
| Onchidella celtica | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Systellommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Onchidioidea |
| Family: | Onchidiidae |
| Genus: | Onchidella |
| Species: | O. celtica |
| Binomial name | |
| Onchidella celtica (Cuvier, 1817[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Onchidella celtica is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.[2]
The complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Onchidella celtica has been available since 2008.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs locally on the East Atlantic coastline, from western Scotland, western England and the Channel Islands, south to Spain and the Azores, including:
Habitat
This air-breathing sea slug lives in the intertidal zone on rocky shorelines.
References
- ↑ Cuvier G. (1817). Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Avec figures, dessinées d'après nature. Tome II, contenant les reptiles, les poissons, les mollusques et les annélides. pp. j-xviij [= 1-18], 1-532. Paris. (Deterville).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Onchidella celtica (Cuvier, 1817). 4 January 2011. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Grande C., Templado J. & Zardoya R. 2008. Evolution of gastropod mitochondrial genome arrangements. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:61. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-61
- Dayrat, Benoît 2009, Review of the current knowledge of the systematics of Onchidiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) with a checklist of nominal species. Zootaxa 2068: 1-26.
External links
- "Species summary for Onchidella celtica" Animalbase
- "Celtic sea slug - Onchidella celtica" MarLIN
- Sea Slug Forum
- Sea Nature Studies : Onchidella celtica