Notobranchaeidae
Sign in to saveThe Notobranchaeidae, or "naked sea butterflies", are a taxonomic family of floating sea slugs, specifically under the subclass Opistobranchia, also called "sea angels".
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FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderPteropoda
- FamilyNotobranchaeidae
Habitatmarine
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The Notobranchaeidae, or "naked sea butterflies", are a taxonomic family of floating sea slugs, specifically under the subclass Opistobranchia, also called "sea angels".
Similar to other Pteropods, these pelagic marine heterobranch gastropod mollusks are holoplanktonic.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Notobranchaeidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.