Genus Onchidina Semper, 1882

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Genus Onchidina Semper, 1882

Onchidina Semper, K.G. 1882. Onchidiidae. Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen 3: 251-290 [287].
Type species:
Onchidina australis Semper, 1885 by original designation.
Paraoncidium Labbe, A. 1934. Les Silicodermes Labbe du Museum d'histoire naturelle de Paris. Premiere partie. Classification, formes nouvelles ou peu connues. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique 14: 173-246 [187] [doubt about validity - see Baker, 1938: 88].
Type species:
Onchidium chameleon Brazier, 1886 by subsequent designation, see Britton, K.M. 1984. The Onchidiacea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) of Hong Kong with a worldwide review of the genera. Journal of Molluscan Studies 50: 179-191 [182].

Introduction

Dayrat & Goulding (2017) demonstrated that Paraoncidium chameleon (Brazier, 1886) is a junior synonym of Onchidina australis (Semper, 1880). Because P. chameleon is the type species of Paraoncidium, the genus becomes a junior synonym of Onchidina

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

New Caledonia, Fiji and other islands of the Western Pacific.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
- Queensland: Central E coast, NE coast

Distribution References

Solem, A. 1959. Systematics of the land and freshwater Mollusca of the New Hebrides. Fieldiana Zoology 43: 1-234 [38]

General References

Dayrat, B. & Goulding, T.C. 2017. Systematics of the onchidiid slug Onchidina australis (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 146(1): 121-133 [123]

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-May-2020	ONCHIDIIDAE Rafinesque, 1815	20-Mar-2020	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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