Alionchis

Alionchis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Alionchis
Goulding and Dayrat, 2018

Alionchis is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae.[1]

Alionchis have large eye tentacles and a bright white margin on the ventral surface of the mantle which makes them highly distinct from other onchidiids.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Alionchis include:

  • Alionchis jailoloensis

References

  1. ^ a b Goulding, Tricia C., Munawar Khalil, Shau H. Tan & Benoît Dayrat. 2018. A new genus and a new species of onchidiid slugs from eastern Indonesia (Gastropoda: Euthyneura: Onchidiidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66: 337-349.[1]