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Pneumodermatidae
The Pneumodermatidae are a family of sea angels, or small floating predatory sea snails or sea slugs. They are pelagic marine heterobranch opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the clade Gymnosomata. These small pelagic snails lack shells (except in their early embryonic stage). They are carnivores, equipped with swimming parapoda (fleshy, wing-like outgrowths), strong jaws, and grasping tentacles, often with suckers resembling those of cephalopods. Genera Genera within the family Pneumodermatidae include: Genus: ''Pneumoderma'' de Roissy, 1805 * '' Pneumoderma atlanticum'' Oken, 1815 * '' Pneumoderma degraaffi'' van der Spoel & Pafort-van Iersel, 1982 – distribution: Sargasso Sea, length: 11.8 mm * '' Pneumoderma mediterraneum'' van Beneden, 1838 – distribution: Florida, Brazil, Mediterranean, length: 20 mm * '' Pneumoderma peronii'' Lamarck, 1819 – distribution: Red Sea * '' Pneumoderma violaceum'' d'Orbigny, 1836 – distribution: Bermuda, oceanic, length: 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pneumoderma
The Pneumodermatidae are a family (biology), family of sea angels, or small floating predatory sea snails or sea slugs. They are pelagic marine (ocean), marine Heterobranchia, heterobranch opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the clade Gymnosomata. These small pelagic snails lack Exoskeleton, shells (except in their early embryonic stage). They are carnivores, equipped with swimming parapoda (fleshy, wing-like outgrowths), strong jaws, and grasping tentacles, often with suckers resembling those of cephalopods. Genera Genera within the family Pneumodermatidae include: Genus: ''Pneumoderma'' de Roissy, 1805 * ''Pneumoderma atlanticum'' Oken, 1815 * ''Pneumoderma degraaffi'' van der Spoel & Pafort-van Iersel, 1982 – distribution: Sargasso Sea, length: 11.8 mm * ''Pneumoderma mediterraneum'' van Beneden, 1838 – distribution: Florida, Brazil, Mediterranean, length: 20 mm * ''Pneumoderma peronii'' Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarck, 1819 – distribution: Red Sea * ''Pneumod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platybrachium
The Pneumodermatidae are a family of sea angels, or small floating predatory sea snails or sea slugs. They are pelagic marine heterobranch opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the clade Gymnosomata. These small pelagic snails lack shells (except in their early embryonic stage). They are carnivores, equipped with swimming parapoda (fleshy, wing-like outgrowths), strong jaws, and grasping tentacles, often with suckers resembling those of cephalopods. Genera Genera within the family Pneumodermatidae include: Genus: ''Pneumoderma'' de Roissy, 1805 * '' Pneumoderma atlanticum'' Oken, 1815 * '' Pneumoderma degraaffi'' van der Spoel & Pafort-van Iersel, 1982 – distribution: Sargasso Sea, length: 11.8 mm * '' Pneumoderma mediterraneum'' van Beneden, 1838 – distribution: Florida, Brazil, Mediterranean, length: 20 mm * '' Pneumoderma peronii'' Lamarck, 1819 – distribution: Red Sea * '' Pneumoderma violaceum'' d'Orbigny, 1836 – distribution: Bermuda, oceanic, length: 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnosomata
Sea angels (clade Gymnosomata) are a large group of small free-swimming sea slugs, classified into six separate families. They are pelagic opisthobranchs in the clade Gymnosomata within the larger mollusc clade Heterobranchia. Sea angels were previously considered to be pteropods. Sea angels are also sometimes known as "sea butterflies" but this is potentially misleading because the family Clionidae is just one of the families within this clade, and the term "sea butterfly" is also applied to the shelled Thecosomata. Recent molecular data suggest the Gymnosomata form a sister group to the Thecosomata (other planktonic, weakly or nonmineralized gastropods), but this long-standing hypothesis has also had some recent detractors. Distribution These organisms have a wide geographic range, from polar regions, under sea ice, to equatorial (tropic) seas. From spring to autumn, sea angels live at a depth of 200 m in the Sea of Okhotsk. In winter, they migrate to the coast of north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
