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Onchidoris
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Onchidoris

Onchidoris is a genus of dorid nudibranchs in the family Onchidorididae. One of its members is known to prey on barnacles and the others eat bryozoans. The radula contains a rachidian tooth when fully developed, but this is vestigial in some species.A molecular phylogeny study showed that they aren't closely related to some other species of Knoutsodonta within which genus they were formerly placed.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

barnacle-eating dorid

speciesOnchidoris bilamellata

Fuzzy Onchidoris

speciesOnchidoris muricata

Onchidoris expectata

speciesOnchidoris expectata

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47481.