Notobranchaeidae

The Notobranchaeidae, or "naked sea butterflies", are a taxonomic family of floating sea slugs, specifically under the subclass Opistobranchia, also called "sea angels".

Notobranchaeidae
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Clade: Euopisthobranchia
Order: Pteropoda
Superfamily: Clionoidea
Family: Notobranchaeidae
(Pelseneer, 1886)
Genera and species

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Similar to other Pteropods, these pelagic marine heterobranch gastropod mollusks are holoplanktonic.

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