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Limapontiidae
Sign in to saveLimapontiidae is a taxonomic family of small to minute sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.
Species
schorrenslakken
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- FamilyLimapontiidae
Habitatmarine, brackish
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Limapontiidae
- Collections
- CAS, UF, WAM, NMV, MAGNT
- Recorded in
- United States, Marshall Islands, Australia, United Kingdom, Indonesia
Wikidata facts
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- Image
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- Commons category
- Limapontiidae
- taxon name
- Limapontiidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Limapontiidae
- taxon common name
- Lanzettschnecken
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Limapontiidae is a taxonomic family of small to minute sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.
These sea slugs resemble nudibranchs, but are not closely related to them. Most of the species are green because of the green algae they eat and live on.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Limapontiidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.