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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.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Limapontiidae is referenced by 30 other articles, and connects out to Mollusca, Animalia and ocean.
It sits within the topics Gastropod families, Limapontiidae and Taxa named by John Edward Gray.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
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FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- FamilyLimapontiidae
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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
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Costasiella cf kuroshimae.png
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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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Encyclopedic overview
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- Genera
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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.