Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) is a animal in the Onchidiidae family, order Systellommatophora, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

Photo of Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) (Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832))
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Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)

Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)

Onchidella nigricans is a small shell-less air-breathing intertidal sea slug found in New Zealand and southeastern Australia.

Family
Genus
Onchidella
Order
Systellommatophora
Class
Gastropoda

About Onchidella nigricans (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)

Onchidella nigricans is a species of small, air-breathing sea slug. It is a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc that belongs to the family Onchidiidae. This species is found in New Zealand and along the common coast of south-eastern Australia. It lives in the intertidal zone across a variety of different habitats.

Photo: (c) Saryu Mae ๅ‰ ๆœ็‰, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Saryu Mae ๅ‰ ๆœ็‰ ยท cc-by

Taxonomy

Animalia โ€บ Mollusca โ€บ Gastropoda โ€บ Systellommatophora โ€บ Onchidiidae โ€บ Onchidella

More from Onchidiidae

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