''Luitfriedia'' is a
monospecific genus of
solenogasters, shell-less, worm-like,
marine
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mollusks.
This genus, and the sole species, ''Luitfriedia minuta'', occurs in
Galicia
Galicia may refer to:
Geographic regions
* Galicia (Spain), a region and autonomous community of northwestern Spain
** Gallaecia, a Roman province
** The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia
** The medieval King ...
,
Spain.
The genus was named in honor of the
malacologist Luitfried von Salvini-Plawen.
Description
This solenogaster bears a range of differently-shaped
spicules. It lacks a
radula
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, and bears ten to twelve "respiratory folds".
References
Cavibelonia
Monotypic mollusc genera
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