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Peronia anomala

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Kingdom
  
Class
  
Family
  
Scientific name
  
Peronia anomala

Phylum
  
Superfamily
  
Onchidioidea

Genus
  
Peronia

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Species

Peronia anomala is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae. It is the most recently discovered species of the genus of Peronia, found in the Red Sea in 1934.

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Description

The sea-slug has a small pleural tooth 54μ wide, described by Labbé as "a bit like P. verruclata". Their size ranged from 10 to 5 mm in length and they have a very contacted body, almost globular. They also have thin integuments and a slighly pigmented pleural cavity.

Distribution

P. anomala lives in a marine biome sea habitat.

References

Peronia anomala Wikipedia


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