Philinidae
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Philinidae is a family of medium-sized, sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks. They are headshield slugs, in the suborder Cephalaspidea.
[edit] Description
These slugs are oblong-shaped, white, strongly muscular, with a large head-shield often occupying two thirds of the body length. The shell is internal, auriform or subquadrate, thin and fragile. They are active burrowers in mud or silty sand, and carnivorous, feeding upon small bivalves, which they crush with large gizzard-plates.
[edit] Genera within the family Philinidae
- Philine Ascanius, 1772
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[edit] References
- Philinidae (TSN 76175). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
