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Family of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Pneumodermatidae | |
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Drawing of a larva of a species in the genus Pneumoderma | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Clade: | Euopisthobranchia |
Order: | Pteropoda |
Superfamily: | Clionoidea |
Family: | Pneumodermatidae (Latreille, 1825) |
Genera | |
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.[1]
Genera within the family Pneumodermatidae include:
Genus: Pneumoderma de Roissy, 1805
Genus: Pneumodermopsis Keferstein, 1862
Genus Schizobrachium Meisenheimer, 1903
Genus Spongiobranchaea d'Orbigny, 1836
Genus Abranchaea Zhan Fu-Sui, 1975
Genus Platybrachium Minichev, 1976
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