Umbraculidae
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Umbraculidae are a taxonomic family of unusual sea snails or limpets, marine opistobranch gastropod molluscs in the order Notaspidea.
These are primitive pleurobranchs (side-gilled sea slugs) in which a large limpet-like external shell still remains as a protection for the gill plumes.
[edit] Distribution
These opisthobranch limpets are found world-wide in tropical and subtropical seas.
[edit] Genera
- Umbraculum Schumacher, 1817
- Spiricella Rang, 1828
[edit] References
- Umbraculidae (TSN 78120). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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