genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
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sacoglossa
Sacoglossa, commonly known as the sacoglossans or the "solar-powered sea slugs", are a superorder of small sea slugs and sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that belong to the clade Heterobranchia. Sacoglossans live by ingesting the cellular ...
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sea slug
Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are sea snails (marine gastropod mollusks) that over evolutionary t ...
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marine
Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean.
Marine or marines may refer to:
Ocean
* Maritime (disambiguation)
* Marine art
* Marine biology
* Marine debris
* Marine habitats
* Marine life
* Marine pollution
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opisthobranch
Opisthobranchs () is now an informal name for a large and diverse group of specialized complex gastropods which used to be united in the subclass Opisthobranchia. That taxon is no longer considered to represent a monophyletic grouping.
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
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Caliphyllidae
Caliphyllidae is a taxonomic family of sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the clade Sacoglossa.
This family has no subfamilies.
Genera
There are five genera in the family Caliphyllidae:
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Species
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Cyerce antillensis
''Cyerce'' is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyerce. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphi ...
'' Engel, 1927
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Cyerce bourbonica
''Cyerce'' is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyerce. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphi ...
'' Yonow, 2012
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Cyerce cristallina
''Cyerce'' is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyerce. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphi ...
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Cyerce edmundsi
''Cyerce'' is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyerce. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphi ...
'' Thompson, 1977
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Cyerce elegans
''Cyerce elegans'' is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs ...
'' Bergh, 1870
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Cyerce graeca
''Cyerce'' is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyerce. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphi ...
'' Thompson T., 1988
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Cyerce habanensis
''Cyerce'' is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyerce. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphi ...
'' Ortea & Templado, 1988
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Cyerce kikutarobabai
''Cyerce kikutarobabai'' is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Caliphyllidae.
The specific name ''kikutarobabai'' is in honor of the Japanese malacologist Kikutaro Baba.
Distr ...
'' Hamatani, 1976
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Cyerce nigra
''Cyerce'' is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyerce. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphi ...
'' Bergh, 1871
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Cyerce nigricans
''Cyerce nigricans'' is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2015). Cyerce nigricans (Pease, 1866). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Regi ...
'' (Pease, 1866)
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Cyerce orteai
''Cyerce'' is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyerce. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphi ...
'' Valdés & Camacho-Garcia, 2000
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Cyerce pavonina
''Cyerce'' is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyerce. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphi ...
'' Bergh, 1888
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Cyerce verdensis
''Cyerce'' is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine (ocean), marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Caliphyllidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyerce. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marines ...