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 | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Clade: | Euopisthobranchia |
Order: | Pteropoda |
Superfamily: | Clionoidea |
Family: | Notobranchaeidae (Pelseneer, 1886) |
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Similar to other Pteropods, these pelagic marine heterobranch gastropod mollusks are holoplanktonic.
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