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]

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. (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. 1 2 3 4 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).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 September 2010.


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