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''Lomanotidae'' is a
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sea slug Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are sea snails (marine gastropod mollusks) that over evolutionary t ...
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gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
s in the superfamily
Tritonioidea Tritoniidae is a taxonomic family of nudibranchs in the suborder Cladobranchia, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs.MolluscaBase (2018)Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809.Accessed on 2021-01-01 This family includes some of the largest known nudibranchs, ...
. The family Lomanotidae has no subfamilies.


Genera

Genera within the family Lomanotidae include: * ''
Lomanotus ''Lomanotus'' is a genus of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lomanotidae ''Lomanotidae'' is a family of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Ar ...
'' Verany, 1844 - type genus


References


Thompson, T. E., & Brown, G.H., 1984. Biology of opisthobranch Molluscs. Vol. 2. Ray Society; London. 1-229, p.17


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