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Wallaconchis

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Wallaconchis
Wallaconchis sinanui
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Superfamily: Onchidioidea
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Wallaconchis
Goulding & Dayrat, 2018
Type species
Wallaconchis sinanui Goulding & Dayrat, 2018

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

They live in the intertidal zone near mangrove trees on coral rubble, sand, sandy mud, or rocks.[2]

Species

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According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species are part of the genus Wallaconchis:[1]

Nomen dubium
  • Wallaconchis fungiformis (Stantschinsky, 1907)
  • Wallaconchis ovalis (C. Semper, 1880)
  • Wallaconchis simrothi (Plate, 1893)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Wallaconchis atra (Lesson, 1831): synonym of Wallaconchis ater (Lesson, 1831)
  • Wallaconchis fungiforme (Stantschinsky, 1907): synonym of Wallaconchis fungiformis (Stantschinsky, 1907) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
  • Wallaconchis gracile (Stantschinsky, 1907): synonym of Wallaconchis gracilis (Stantschinsky, 1907) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
  • Wallaconchis graniferum (C. Semper, 1880): synonym of Wallaconchis graniferus (C. Semper, 1880) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
  • Wallaconchis nangkauriense (Plate, 1893): synonym of Wallaconchis nangkauriensis (Plate, 1893) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)

References

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  1. ^ a b Wallaconchis Goulding & Dayrat, 2018. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 June 2021.
  2. ^ Goulding, Tricia C.; Khalil, Munawar; Tan, Shau Hwai; Dayrat, Benoît (6 April 2018). "Integrative taxonomy of a new and highly-diverse genus of onchidiid slugs from the Coral Triangle (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae)". ZooKeys (763): 1–111. doi:10.3897/zookeys.763.21252. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 5996013. PMID 29896045.
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