Specimen image via iDigBio · CC0
Pseudovermis
Sign in to savePseudovermis is genus of minute sea slugs, specifically aolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pseudovermidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNudibranchia
- FamilyPseudovermidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 23
- With media
- 62
- Family
- Pseudovermidae
- Collections
- USNM, ALMNH, UF
- Recorded in
- United States, Japan, Panama, Oman
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
Show 4 more facts
- taxon name
- Pseudovermis
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Pseudovermis
- Commons category
- Pseudovermis
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Species
- References
Pseudovermis is genus of minute sea slugs, specifically aolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pseudovermidae.
These extremely small sea slugs are meiofauna; they live among sand grains. Pseudovermis means fake worm, because these slugs resemble minute worms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pseudovermis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.