Pleurobranchaea
| Pleurobranchaea | |
|---|---|
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| Pleurobranchaea bubala | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pleurobranchoidea |
| Family: | Pleurobranchidae |
| Subfamily: | Pleurobranchaeinae |
| Genus: | Pleurobranchaea |
Pleurobranchaea is a genus of sea slugs, specifically sidegill slugs or notaspideans. These are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pleurobranchidae. The genus is differentiated from other sidegill slugs by its rhinophores, which are well separated, rather than being joined under the notum.[1]
Species
Species in the genus Pleurobranchaea include:[2][3]
- Pleurobranchaea agassizii R. Bergh, 1897
- Pleurobranchaea bonnieae Ev. Marcus and Gosliner, 1984
- Pleurobranchaea brockii Bergh, 1897
- Pleurobranchaea bubala Marcus and Gosliner, 1984
- Pleurobranchaea californica MacFarland, 1966
- Pleurobranchaea hedgpethi Abbott, 1952
- Pleurobranchaea inconspicua Bergh, 1897
- Pleurobranchaea japonica J. Thiele, 1925
- Pleurobranchaea maculata (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832)
- Pleurobranchaea meckelii Leue, 1813
- Pleurobranchaea obesa (A. E. Verrill, 1882)
- Pleurobranchaea tarda A. E. Verrill, 1880
References
- ↑ Gosliner, T. M. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa. ISBN 0-930118-13-8.
- ↑ http://www.seaslugforum.net/specieslist.cfm accessed 19 May 2009
- ↑ http://www.catalogueoflife.org accessed 19 May 2009