''Peronia'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
sea slug
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s, a shell-less
marine
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pulmonate
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
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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 ...
.
These slugs differ from other onchidiid slugs in having branched "gills" on their dorsal side, although these can be retracted.
More than two dozen species of ''Peronia'' have been described from the Indo-West Pacific, but a recent revision of the genus determined that 21 of these names are synonyms.
Nine species of ''Peronia'' are recognized, most of which can differentiated only by examining their internal anatomy or with DNA sequencing.
Species
The following species are species currently recognized within the genus ''Peronia'':
* ''
Peronia anomala
''Peronia anomala'' is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae. It is the most recently discovered species of the genus of Peronia, found in the Red Sea in 1934.
Descri ...
''
Labbé, 1934
* ''Peronia griffithsi''
Dayrat & Goulding, 2017
*''Peronia madagascariensis''
(Labbé, 1934)
* ''Peronia okinawensis''
Dayrat & Goulding, 2020
* ''
Peronia peronii
''Peronia peronii'' is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.
Description
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and Mozambiqu ...
''
(Cuvier, 1804)
*''
Peronia platei
''Peronia platei'' is a species of slug, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae, one of the families of sea slugs. Nine species of ''Peronia'' are recognized; the way to tell them apart is by DNA sequencing by mitochondrial and nuc ...
''
(Hoffman, 1928)
*''Peronia setoensis''
Dayrat & Goulding, 2020
*''Peronia sydneyensis''
Dayrat & Goulding, 2020
* ''
Peronia verruculata
''Peronia verruculata'' is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar
Madagascar (; ...
''
(Cuvier, 1830)
*''Peronia willani''
Dayrat & Goulding, 2020
References
Onchidiidae
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