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Cavoliniidae
Sign in to saveThe family Cavoliniidae is a taxonomic group of small floating sea snails, pelagic marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.
Species
カメガイ科
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderPteropoda
- FamilyCavoliniidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 449
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Cavoliniidae
- Collections
- SDNHM, CAS, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Philippines, Indonesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cavolinioidea
- Image
- Cavolinia tridentata.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cavoliniidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Cavoliniidae
- taxon name
- Cavoliniidae
- taxon rank
- family
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Life habits
- Taxonomy
- 2005 taxonomy
- Genera
- Clioinae
- Cuvierininae
- Creseinae
- References
- Further reading
The family Cavoliniidae is a taxonomic group of small floating sea snails, pelagic marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.
This family is part of a larger group which is commonly known as the sea butterflies because they swim by flapping what appear to be small "wings".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cavoliniidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.