Cavoliniidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Pteropoda
- Family
- Cavoliniidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Cavoliniidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cavoliniidae
The family Cavoliniidae is a taxonomic group of small floating sea snails, pelagic marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.
This family is part of a larger group which is commonly known as the sea butterflies because they swim by flapping what appear to be small "wings".
...Cavoliniidae in languages:
- Chinese
- 駝蝶螺科
- Dutch
- Wimpelvleugelslakken
- English
- Cavolines
- Japanese
- カメガイ科
- Japanese
- ウキヅツガイ科
- Korean
- 거북고둥과
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