| Paromoionchis tumidus | |
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| Dorsal view of Paromoionchis tumidus in the mud (head is on the right). | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Systellommatophora |
| Family: | Onchidiidae |
| Genus: | Paromoionchis |
| Species: | P. tumidus |
| Binomial name | |
| Paromoionchis tumidus (Semper, 1880) | |
Paromoionchis tumidus is a species of small, air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidiidae.
Distribution
Paromoionchis tumidus is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific from Japan in the north, to Hong Kong, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, the Andaman Islands, Indonesia, and Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland).
Synonymized names
The following names have been synonymized with Paromoionchis tumidus:
- Onchidium samarense Semper, 1880
- Onchidium mertoni Simroth, 1918
- Onchidium hongkongense Britton, 1984
References
- ^ Dayrat, Benoît; Goulding, Tricia C.; Khalil, Munawar; Apte, Deepak; Bourke, Adam J.; Comendador, Joseph; Tan, Shau Hwai (22 February 2019). "A new genus and three new species of mangrove slugs from the Indo-West Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Euthyneura: Onchidiidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (500). doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.500. ISSN 2118-9773.
External links
- Video of Paromoionchis tumidus in its natural environment on YouTube (under the synonymized name Onchidium hongkongense).
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| Paromoionchis tumidus | |
| Onchidium tumidum | |
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