Notomenia
| Notomenia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Aplacophora |
| Subclass: | Solenogastres |
| Order: | Cavibelonia |
| Family: | Notomeniidae Salvini-Plawen 2004 |
| Genus: | Notomenia Thiele, 1897 |
| Binomial name | |
| N. clavigera Thiele, 1897 | |
Notomenia is a genus of cavibelonian solenogasters, shell-less, worm-like, marinemollusks.[1] In this genus the animal bears non-mineralized sclerites.[2] This genus is the sole representative of the family Notomeniidae, and has secondarily reduced its radula, which is vestigial.[3]
References
- ↑ García-Álvarez, Óscar; v. Salvini-Plawen, Luitfried (2007). "Species and diagnosis of the Families and Genera of Solenogastres (Mollusca)". Iberus 25 (2): 73–143. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011.
- ↑ Scheltema, A. H.; Kerth, K.; Kuzirian, A. M. (2003). "Original molluscan radula: Comparisons among Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, and the Cambrian fossil Wiwaxia corrugata". Journal of Morphology 257 (2): 219–45. doi:10.1002/jmor.10121. PMID 12833382.
- ↑ Von Salvini-Plawen, L. (2004). "Contributions to the Morphological Diversity and Classification of the Order Cavibelonia (Mollusca: Solenogastres)". Journal Molluscan Studies 70: 73. doi:10.1093/mollus/70.1.73.