Onchidella

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Onchidella
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Onchidella nigricans
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Onchidella sp. at Murrays Bay, Auckland, New Zealand
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Onchidella
Gray, 1850
Species

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Synonyms [1]
  • ArctonchisDall, 1905
  • OccidentellaHoffmann, 1929
  • OncidiellaCrosse & P. Fischer, 1878
  • PeronellaMörch, 1863 (Invalid: junior homonym of Peronella Gray, 1855 [Echinodermata])
  • PeroniellaStarobogatov, 1976

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

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Onchidella : [1]

Synonymized species

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