Paraganitus ellynnae

Paraganitus ellynnae is smaller than 5 mm and is externally symmetric.[1] It has no shell in adults, and no operculum in adults.[1] It has also no head shield and no posterior shield.[1] It is able to partially retract parts of its anterior body into a temporal visceral cavity.[1] The visceral sac is largely separated from the rest of the body.[1] The mantle is robust.[1] The visceral hump is conical.[1] The tail is short and pointed.[1] The foot is narrow, the anterior foot edge is rounded and it can crawl on the whole foot.[1] It has no mantle cavity.[1] It has elongated/pointed rhinophores.[1] Like all acochlidians, it has oral (= labial) tentacles.[1] Paraganitus ellynnae has long and slightly recurved oral tentacles.[1] Oral tentacle nerves have been present in all examined acochlidians to date, but those nerves were not examined in this species.[1]

Like all acochlidians, it lacks plicate gills.[1] The position of the anus is unknown.[1] It has no calcareous spicules, but it has integumental concrements.[1] It has no keel on the visceral hump.[1]

It has aggregations of precerebral ‘accessory ganglia’.[1] It has no eyes.[1] The presence or absence of Hancock's organ is unknown.[1] It has prepharyngeal CNS as is the case in all other acochlidians.[1]

Paraganitus ellynnae is marine and is a mesopsammic species, in other words, these very small slugs live in the interstitial spaces of marine sands.[1]