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Pneumodermatidae
Sign in to saveThe Pneumodermatidae are a family of sea angels, or small floating predatory sea snails or sea slugs. They are pelagic marine heterobranch opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the clade Gymnosomata.
Species
ニュウモデルマ科
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderPteropoda
- FamilyPneumodermatidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 57
- With media
- 72
- Family
- Pneumodermatidae
- Collections
- NMV, USNM, TMAG, WAM
- Recorded in
- Antarctica, United States, Australia
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The Pneumodermatidae are a family of sea angels, or small floating predatory sea snails or sea slugs. They are pelagic marine heterobranch opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the clade Gymnosomata.
These small pelagic snails lack shells (except in their early embryonic stage). They are carnivores, equipped with swimming parapoda (fleshy, wing-like outgrowths), strong jaws, and grasping tentacles, often with suckers resembling those of cephalopods.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pneumodermatidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.