Nudi Pixel: Nudibranchs and Sea Slugs Identification with Photographs

Onchidium sp.

This is not nudibranch or sea slug

Photographed by: Chris Alger

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Onchidiidae
Species:	Onchidium sp.

This is what is commonly known as a Mangrove Slug, it is a pulmonate slug in which the lung opens at the rear of the body. So it isn’t a sea slug.

Locality:

• Australia
  • Darnley Island (Erub Island) (1) Jul

 

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