Peronia is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae.[1] These slugs differ from other onchidiid slugs in having branched "gills" on their dorsal side, although these can be retracted.[2] More than two dozen species of Peronia have been described from the Indo-West Pacific, but a recent revision of the genus determined that 21 of these names are synonyms.[2] Nine species of Peronia are recognized, most of which can differentiated only by examining their internal anatomy or with DNA sequencing.[2]

Peronia
Peronia willani
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Peronia
Fleming, 1822
Synonyms[1]
  • Eudrastus Gistel, 1848
  • Onchis Férussac, 1822
  • Paraperonia Starobogatov, 1976
  • Quoya Labbé, 1934
  • Quoyella Starobogatov, 1976 (unnecessary replacement name for Quoya Labbé, 1934, by Starobogatov by Starobogatov treated as a junior homonym of "Quoya Deshayes, 1843"; the latter is in fact an incorrect subsequent spelling of Quoyia Gray, 1839 [Planaxidae])

Species

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The following species are species currently recognized within the genus Peronia:[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Peronia Fleming, 1822. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 September 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d Dayrat, Benoît; Goulding, Tricia C.; Apte, Deepak; Aslam, Sadar; Bourke, Adam; Comendador, Joseph; Khalil, Munawar; Ngô, Xuân Quảng; Tan, Siong Kiat; Tan, Shau Hwai (10 January 2020). "Systematic revision of the genus Peronia Fleming, 1822 (Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae)". ZooKeys (972): 1–224. Bibcode:2020ZooK..972....1D. doi:10.3897/zookeys.972.52853. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 7544732. PMID 33071542.
  3. ^ Peronia anomala Labbé, 1934. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 March 2010.