Onchidiidae
A live but partially retracted individual of Onchidella sp.
A live and active individual of Onchidella nigricans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Systellommatophora
Superfamily: Onchidioidea
Rafinesque, 1815
Family: Onchidiidae
Rafinesque, 1815[1]
Genera

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Synonyms
  • Hoffmannolidae Starobogatov, 1976
  • Onchidinidae Starobogatov, 1976
  • Onchidellidae Labbé, 1934
  • Peroniidae Keferstein, 1865
  • Peroninidae Starobogatov, 1976
  • Platevindecidae Starobogatov, 1976
  • Quoyellidae Starobogatov, 1976
  • Scaphidae Labbé, 1934

Onchidiidae are a family of small, air-breathing sea (and land) slugs. They are shell-less marine (except for 2 species)[2] pulmonate gastropod molluscs. Onchidiidae is the only family within the superfamily Onchidioidea.

These animals are quite unusual in that they are emphatically not opisthobranchs with gills, as are almost all of the sea slugs. Instead these creatures are pulmonates. They are more closely related to air-breathing land and freshwater snails and slugs than they are to most other sea snails and sea slugs.

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

143 species names were created within the Onchidiidae,[2] but until recently few species could be identified. In the late 1920s Hoffmann revised the family (based on the descriptions), and classified the described species into genera.[3] Labbé later continued the revision and named many new genera in his classification of onchidiid slugs.[4] Labbé also made mistakes in describing the anatomy of some species,[5] and the Onchidiidae was not revised again for over 80 years. The genus Onchidium was revised in 2016 based on natural history, comparative anatomy, and DNA sequences.[6] This was followed by revisions of the other onchidiid genera[7][8][9][10], and the descriptions of onchidiid species in several new genera.[5][11][12][13][14][15]

Anatomy

Adult onchidiids lack a shell, although a shell[16] and operculum is present at the larval stage. The mantle cavity is reduced to the point of absence, correlating with a loss of gills, raphes, and other characters usually found in the mantle cavity. The organism is completely detorted.[17]

Slugs in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.[18]

Genetics

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 16 and 20 (according to the values in this table).[19]

Habitat

Most of the species in this family are marine and are found in the intertidal zone. Many species live on rocky coasts, while others live in mangrove forests which may be marine or brackish.[6] Onchidium stuxbergi (as E. ajuthiae, synonym in literature) was previously considered to be a fresh water species, but the species is now recognized to be found in brackish water habitats.[6]

Remarkably, some onchidiid species are completely terrestrial.[20] Semperoncis montana (synonym in literature: Platevindex apoikistes and Semperella montana) and Platevindex ponsonbyi are the only known terrestrial species in the Onchidiidae.[2] They live in high-elevation rainforests in Borneo and the Philippines.[2]

Life habits

All these slugs breathe air. The marine ones breathe and move around and feed during low tide, when the water recedes and the slugs are exposed to the air.

Genera

Genera in the family Onchidiidae include:

Synonymized genera

References

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  4. ^ Labbé, A. (1934). "Les Silicodermés (Labbé) du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Première partie: Classification, formes nouvelles ou peu connues". Annales de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco. 14: 73–246.
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