Clione limacina: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Pteropoda
- Family
- Clionidae
- Genus
- Clione
- Species
- Clione limacina
- Scientific Name
- Clione limacina
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Clione limacina
Clione limacina, known as the naked sea butterfly, sea angel, and common clione, is a sea angel (pelagic sea slug) found from the surface to greater than 500 m (1,600 ft) depth. It lives in the Arctic Ocean and cold regions of the North Atlantic Ocean. It was first described by Friderich Martens in 1676 and became the first gymnosomatous (without a shell) "pteropod" to be described.
...Clione limacina in languages:
- Dutch
- Gewone Vlerkslak
- Dutch
- Roodgepunte vlerkslak
- English
- Naked Sea Butterfly
- English
- Common Clione
- English
- Sea Angel
- French
- Ange des mers
- Japanese
- ハダカカメガイ
- Japanese
- ダイオウハダカカメガイ
- Russian
- Морской ангел
- Swedish
- Änglavinge
- Thai
- นางฟ้าทะเลธรรมดา
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