Lamellariidae

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Lamellariidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neotaenioglossa
Family: Lamellariidae
Orbigny, 1841
Genera

See text.

Lamellariidae is a family of small slug-like snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Neotaenioglossa.

[edit] Description

The shells are thin, semitransparent and fragile, of few whorls, smooth and covered by a thin periostracum. The slug-like animal resembles a nudibranch but is in no way related. Both in texture and in coloration they are usually camouflaged to resemble the sponges and ascidians, among which they browse, feeding mostly upon the latter.

[edit] Genera in the family Lamellariidae

  • Calyptoconcha Bouchet and Waren, 1993
  • Lamellaria Montagu, 1815
  • Larochea Finlay, 1927
  • Marsenina J. E. Gray, 1850
  • Marseniopsis Bergh, 1886
  • Mysticoncha Allan, 1936
  • Onchidiopsis Bergh, 1853

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