Pseudovermidae

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Pseudovermidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
Family: Pseudovermidae
Thiele, 1931[1]
Genera

See text.

Pseudovermidae is a taxonomic family of minute sea slugs, specifically aolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusks.

This family has no subfamilies.

These extremely small sea slugs are meiofauna; they live among sand grains.

Genera and species

Genera and species within the family Pseudovermidae include:[2][3]

  • Pseudovermis Periaslavzeff, 1891 - type genus of the family Pseudovermidae
    • Pseudovermis boadeni Salvini-Plawen & Sterrer, 1868
    • Pseudovermis chinensis Hughes, 1991[4]
    • Pseudovermis hancocki Challis, 1969
    • Pseudovermis papillifera Kowalevsky, 1901

References

  1. Thiele J. (1931) Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde, 1(2): 453.
  2. Powell A. W. B. (1979) New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  3. "Pseudovermidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 
  4. Hughes H. P. I. (1991) "Sand dwelling Opistobranchs from Hong-Kong". Journal of Molluscan Studies, 57(4): 425-431.


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