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Phyllaplysia
Sign in to savePhyllaplysia is a genus of sea slugs, specifically sea hares, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderAplysiida
- FamilyAplysiidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 36
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Aplysiidae
- Collections
- USNM, CAS, YPM
- Recorded in
- Kenya, Seychelles, Papua New Guinea, United States, Philippines, Mexico, Vanuatu, Palau
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Notarchidae
- Image
- Phyllaplysia taylori.jpg
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- Phyllaplysia
- taxon name
- Phyllaplysia
- taxon rank
- genus
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Phyllaplysia is a genus of sea slugs, specifically sea hares, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares.
Some authors place this genus in a separate family, Dolabriferidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phyllaplysia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.