''Marmaronchis'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
sea slug
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s, a shell-less
marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
s in the
family
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Onchidiidae
Onchidiidae are a family of small, air-breathing sea (and land) slugs. They are shell-less marine (except for 2 species)preview pulmonate gastropod molluscs. Onchidiidae is the only family within the superfamily Onchidioidea.
These animals are ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Marmaronchis Dayrat & Goulding, 2018. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1315251 on 2021-09-24]
Species
Species within the genus ''Marmaronchis '' include:
* ''
Marmaronchis marmoratus''
(Lesson, 1831)
* ''
Marmaronchis vaigiensis''
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)
References
External links
Dayrat B., Goulding T.C., Khalil M., Lozouet P. & Tan S.H. (2018). Systematic revision one clade at a time: A new genus of onchidiid slugs from the Indo-West Pacific (Gastropoda: Euthyneura: Pulmonata). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 66: 814-837
Onchidiidae
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