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sacoglossa Sacoglossa, commonly known as the sacoglossans or the "solar-powered sea slugs", are a superorder of small sea slugs and sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that belong to the clade Heterobranchia. Sacoglossans live by ingesting the cellular ...

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Hermaeidae Hermaeidae is a taxonomic family of sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plakobranchoidea. This family has no subfamilies. Genera Jensen (1996)Jensen K. R. (1996). "Phylogenetic systemati ...

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Species

Species within the genus ''Polybranchia'' include: * '' Polybranchia borgninii'' (Trinchese, 1896) * ''

Polybranchia orientalis ''Polybranchia orientalis'' is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2011). Polybranchia orientalis (Kelaart, 1858). Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

'' (Kelaart, 1858) * '' Polybranchia pallens'' (Burn, 1957) * '' Polybranchia papillosa'' (Pease, 1866) * '' Polybranchia pellucida'' Pease, 1860 * '' Polybranchia prasinus'' (Bergh, 1871) * '' Polybranchia viridis'' (Deshayes, 1857) * '' Polybranchia westralis'' Jensen, 1993 * ''Polybranchia'' sp. 1 from Kungkungan Bay,

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"''Polybranchia'' sp. 1"
Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Accessed 14 January 2009.

References

* Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

External links

Hermaeidae Taxa named by William Harper Pease {{Hermaeidae-stub