Platevindex tigrinus

Platevindex tigrinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Onchidiidae
Genus: Platevindex
Species:
P. tigrinus
Binomial name
Platevindex tigrinus
Stoliczka, 1869

Platevindex tigrinus is a species of air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidiidae.

Description

This species has a light grey hyponotum like Platevindex coriaceus and can hardly be distinguished from that species, except by examining the internal anatomy or genome.

Distribution

The species occurs in Brunei, India (Andaman Islands, Maharashtra and West Bengal), Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and Southern China.

References

  1. ↑ Platevindex tigrinus Stoliczka, 1869. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 Goulding, Tricia C.; Bourke, Adam J.; Comendador, Joseph; Khalil, Munawar; Quang, Ngo Xuan; Tan, Shau Hwai; Tan, Siong Kiat; Dayrat, Benoît (8 March 2021). "Systematic revision of Platevindex Baker, 1938 (Gastropoda: Euthyneura: Onchidiidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 737: 1–133. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.737.1259. ISSN 2118-9773.