Onchidium vaigiense

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

Onchidium vaigiense
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Systellommatophora
Superfamily:
Onchidioidea
Family:
Onchidiidae
Genus:
Onchidium
Species:
O. vaigiense
Binomial name
Onchidium vaigiense
Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
Synonyms[1]
  • Onchidium leopoldi Labbé, 1934
  • Onchidium marmoratum Lesson, 1826
  • Paraoncidium vaigiense (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
  • Peronia laevis Blainville , 1825

Description

Distribution
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gollark: A very quick internet search says there were indeed no bodies found there, but also that they could plausibly just have been stolen.
gollark: With some stuff inside of them where they buried people, I guess.
gollark: They're big... square-based pyramids... of rock.

References
  1. Onchidium vaigiense Quoy & Gaimard, 1824. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 January 2011.


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