Peronia

Peronia
Peronia willani
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Peronia
Fleming, 1822
Synonyms
  • Eudrastus Gistel, 1848
  • Lessonia Labbé, 1934
  • Lessonina Starobogatov, 1976
  • 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])
  • Scaphis Starobogatov, 1976

Peronia is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Onchidiidae. These slugs differ from other onchidiid slugs in having branched "gills" on their dorsal side, although these can be retracted. 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. Nine species of Peronia are recognized, most of which can differentiated only by examining their internal anatomy or with DNA sequencing.

Species

The following species are species currently recognized within the genus Peronia:

References

  1. 1 2 Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2026). "Peronia J. Fleming, 1822". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 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.