Acochlidium figiiensis - a freshwater species from Fiji. Length about 15 mm.
Photo from Michael Schrödl - Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). 'On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia'. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-323. cropped from the figure 3., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12200656
Shell completely lost. See figure for general body morphology.
Acochlidium Strubell, 1892
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Heterobranchia
Infrasubcohort Panpulmonata
Superorder Acochlidia
Order Acochlida
Superfamily Acochlidiioidea
Family Acochlidiidae
Genus Acochlidium Strubell, 1892
Not as yet recorded from Australia but is included here as there is a possibility that the group could occur in this country.
These slugs occur in freshwater streams.
This genus is representative of a small group of freshwater slugs of the family Acochlidiidae found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Solomon Ids. The group comprises three genera in the same general region. It is, as yet, not recorded from Australia.
Neusser, T. P. & Schrödl, M. (2019). Tantulidae Rankin, 1979, and Acochlidiidae Küthe, 1935. Pp. 145-149 in C. Lydeard & Cummings, K. S. Freshwater Mollusks of the World: a Distribution Atlas. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press.
