Limacinidae
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Limacinidae is a family of small sea snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the suborder Cephalaspidea.
[edit] Description
The shells are small and trochoid- or rissoid-like, with a more or less prominent spire, sinistrally coiled, and with an excentrically coiled operculum.
[edit] Genera within the family Limacinidae
- Limacina Bosc, 1817
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[edit] References
- Limacinidae (TSN 76334). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
