Pleurobranchida
Sign in to savePleurobranchida, also known as side-gilled slugs, is an order of gastropods belonging to the superorder Nudipleura.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Pleurobranchida is referenced by 45 other articles, and connects out to Gastropoda, Pleurobranchaeidae and Berthella martensi.
It sits within the topics Nudipleura and Taxonbars with multiple manual Wikidata items.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 34
- Collections
- SIO, UF
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Saudi Arabia, Mariana Islands, United States Overseas Territories, Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Nudipleura
- Image
- Tomoberthella martensi (Pilsbry, 1896).jpg
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- taxon name
- Pleurobranchida
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- Pleurobranchida
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Pleurobranchida, also known as side-gilled slugs, is an order of gastropods belonging to the superorder Nudipleura.
== Taxonomy == In 1822, Férussac introduced the vernacular family “les Pleurobranches” to refer to known members of the current family Pleurobranchidae. In 1832, in the second volume of Histoire naturelle des vers of the Encyclopédie Méthodique by Deshayes, the same term was also used to refer to a higher-level group containing the genera Pleurobranchaea and Pleurobranchus, also grouped as “les Pleurobranches”, and Siphonaria and Umbrella, grouped as "les Ombrelles". The term was later latinized by Herrmannsen in 1847 as the suborder Pleurobranchia.
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