Paromoionchis tumidus

Paromoionchis tumidus is a species of small, air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidiidae.^[1]

Paromoionchis tumidus
Dorsal view of Paromoionchis tumidus in the mud (head is on the right).
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Systellommatophora
Family:	Onchidiidae
Genus:	Paromoionchis
Species:	P. tumidus
Binomial name
Paromoionchis tumidus (Semper, 1880)

Distribution

Paromoionchis tumidus is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific from Japan in the north, to Hong Kong, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, the Andaman Islands, Indonesia, and Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland).^[1]

Synonymized names

The following names have been synonymized with Paromoionchis tumidus:^[1]

• Onchidium samarense Semper, 1880
• Onchidium mertoni Simroth, 1918
• Onchidium hongkongense Britton, 1984