Onchidella floridana
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Species: | O. floridana
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Onchidella floridana (Dall, 1885)
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Onchidella floridana is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.[1]
Description[]
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Distribution[]
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.
References[]
- ^ a b Onchidella floridana (Dall, 1885). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 January 2011.
- 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
- Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
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- Onchidiidae
- Gastropods described in 1885
- Onchidiidae stubs