Onchidella floridana (Dall 1885)

Onchidella floridana is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.^[1]

Distribution and habitat

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. And was once ubiquitous in and around the shallow waters - intertidal zones - of Bermuda. Never located on the rugged, storm-tossed Atlantic Ocean side of the Island. Observed, studied & photographed by graduate student(s) attending Marine Ecology Summer Program at Bermuda Biological Station in 1985.

References

• Dayrat, B. (2009) Review of the current knowledge of the systematics of Onchidiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) with a checklist of nominal species. Zootaxa 2068: 1–26
• Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas

Onchidella floridana is een slakkensoort uit de familie van de Onchidiidae.^[1] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1885 door Dall.