Fowlerina

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Fowlerina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Opisthobranchia
Suborder: Gymnosomata
Family: Clionidae
Genus: Fowlerina
(Pelseneer, 1906)
Species

See text.

Fowlerina, also known as one kind of "sea angel", is a genus of small sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Clionidae.

Sometimes called pteropods, these are floating pelagic creatures which swim by flapping two wing-like extensions of their body known as parapodia.

Please also see: Sea angel and Clionidae.

[edit] Species in the genus Fowlerina

  • Fowlerina punctata Tesch, 1903
  • Fowlerina zetesios Pelseneer, 1906


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