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Pleurobranchaea
Sign in to savePleurobranchaea is a genus of sea slugs, specifically sidegill slugs or notaspideans. These are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pleurobranchaeidae. The genus is differentiated from other sidegill slugs by its rhinophores, which are well separated, rather than being joined under the notum. This genus has recently been coined sea owls which is the common name in Japanese for Pleurobranchaea japonica.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderPleurobranchida
- FamilyPleurobranchaeidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 284
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Pleurobranchidae
- Collections
- USNM, LACM
- Recorded in
- United States, Japan, Philippines, Mexico, Egypt, Chile, British Virgin Islands
Research
130 papers- The Sea Slug, Pleurobranchaea californica: A Signpost Species in the Evolution of Complex Nervous Systems and Behavior.Integrative and comparative biology · 2015
- cAMP, Ca(2+), pH(i), and NO Regulate H-like Cation Channels That Underlie Feeding and Locomotion in the Predatory Sea Slug Pleurobranchaea californica.ACS chemical neuroscience · 2018
- Coordination of Locomotion by Serotonergic Neurons in the Predatory Gastropod Pleurobranchaea californica.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
- A peripheral subepithelial network for chemotactile processing in the predatory sea slug Pleurobranchaea californica.PloS one · 2024
- Evidence for heterogeneity of muscarinic receptors in the mollusc Pleurobranchaea.Brain research bulletin · 1988
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- Parent taxon
- Pleurobranchidae
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- Warty pleurobranch2.jpg
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Pleurobranchaea is a genus of sea slugs, specifically sidegill slugs or notaspideans. These are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pleurobranchaeidae. The genus is differentiated from other sidegill slugs by its rhinophores, which are well separated, rather than being joined under the notum. This genus has recently been coined sea owls which is the common name in Japanese for Pleurobranchaea japonica.
thumb|Pleurobranchaea meckelii
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