Juliidae
Sign in to saveJuliidae, common name the bivalved gastropods, is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Oxynooidea, an opisthobranch group.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 60
- Family
- Juliidae
- Collections
- CAS, USNM, MNHN, WAM, UF
- Recorded in
- United States, Bahamas, Seychelles, Guadeloupe, Papua New Guinea, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Sacoglossa
- Image
- Julia exquisita.jpg
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- Commons category
- Juliidae
- taxon name
- Juliidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Juliidae
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Nomenclature
- Research history
- Initial interpretation as bivalves
- Discovery of live animals
- Description
- Ecology
- Distribution
- Life cycle
- Feeding habits
- 2005 taxonomy
- Genera
- Juliinae
- Bertheliniinae
- Gougerotiinae
- Evolutionary history
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- External links
Juliidae, common name the bivalved gastropods, is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Oxynooidea, an opisthobranch group.
These are sacoglossan (sap-sucking) sea snails, and many of them are green in color.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Juliidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.