Onchidella floridana

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Onchidella floridana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Onchidella
Species:
O. floridana
Binomial name
Onchidella floridana
(Dall, 1885)
Synonyms [1]
  • Onchidium floridanumDall, 1885
  • Onchidium transatlanticumHeilprin, 1889
  • Onchidium trans-atlanticumHeilprin, 1889

Onchidella floridana is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae. [1]

Distribution and habitat

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. And was once ubiquitous in and around the shallow waters - intertidal zones - of Bermuda. Never located on the rugged, storm-tossed Atlantic Ocean side of the Island. Observed, studied & photographed by graduate student(s) attending Marine Ecology Summer Program at Bermuda Biological Station in 1985.

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