Limapontiidae: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Family
Limapontiidae
Genus
Species
Scientific Name
Limapontiidae

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Limapontiidae

Limapontiidae is a taxonomic family of small to minute sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.

These sea slugs resemble nudibranchs, but are not closely related to them. Most of the species are green because of the green algae they eat and live on.

In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the former family Stiligeridae is described as a synonym of the family Limapontiidae Gray, 1847, belonging to the superfamily Limapontioidea Jensen, 1996.

This family has no subfamilies.

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Limapontiidae in languages:

Chinese
柱狀科
Korean
꼭지갯민숭붙이과
Swedish
marsipansnäckor

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