''Siphopteron'' is a
genus
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of
sea slug
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s,
marine
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gastropod
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mollusc
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s in the
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Gastropteridae
Gastropteridae, the bat-winged slugs, is a family of sea slugs, gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Philinoidea of the clade Cephalaspidea, the headshield slugs and bubble snails. The greatest diversity of these colourful small slugs is in the ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Siphopteron'' include:
* ''
Siphopteron alboaurantium''
(Gosliner, 1984)
* ''
Siphopteron brunneomarginatum''
(Carlson & Hoff, 1974)
* ''
Siphopteron citrinum''
(Carlson & Hoff, 1974)
* ''
Siphopteron flavobrunneum''
(Gosliner, 1984)
* ''
Siphopteron flavum''
(Tokioka & Baba, 1964)
* ''
Siphopteron fuscum''
(Baba & Tokioka, 1965)
* ''
Siphopteron ladrones''
(Carlson & Hoff, 1974)
* ''
Siphopteron leah''
Klussmann-Kolb & Klussmann, 2003
* ''
Siphopteron michaeli''
(Gosliner & Williams, 1988)
* ''
Siphopteron nigromarginatum''
Gosliner, 1989
* ''
Siphopteron pohnpei''
(Hoff & Carlson, 1983)
* ''
Siphopteron quadrispinosum''
Gosliner, 1989
* ''
Siphopteron tigrinum''
Gosliner, 1989
* ''Siphopteron'' sp. 1
[Lange R., Werminghausen J. & Anthes N. (2013). "Cephalo-traumatic secretion transfer in a hermaphrodite sea slug". '']Proceedings of the Royal Society B
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'' 281(1774): 1-6. .
References
Gastropteridae
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