Peronia anomala

Peronia anomala is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.[1] It is the most recently discovered species of the genus of Peronia, found in the Red Sea in 1934.[2]

Peronia anomala
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Systellommatophora
Superfamily:
Onchidioidea
Family:
Onchidiidae
Genus:
Peronia
Species:
P. anomala
Binomial name
Peronia anomala
Labbé, 1934

Description

The sea-slug has a small pleural tooth 54μ wide, described by Labbé as "a bit like P. verruclata". Their size ranged from 10 to 5 mm in length and they have a very contacted body, almost globular.[3] They also have thin integuments and a slightly pigmented pleural cavity.

Distribution

P. anomala lives in a marine biome sea habitat.[4]

References
  1. Peronia anomala Labbé, 1934. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 March 2010.
  2. "Benoit Dayrat". campillos.ucmerced.edu. Archived from the original on 15 June 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  3. Labbé, Alphonse (15 April 1934). "Les Silicodermés Labbé du Museum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris" (PDF). ?: 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  4. "Peronia anomala - Information on Peronia anomala - Encyclopedia of Life". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 18 May 2015.


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