''Asperspina'' is a
genus
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of
sea slug
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s,
marine gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s within the clade
Acochlidiacea
Acochlidiacea, common name acochlidians, are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic clade of very unusual sea snails and sea and freshwater slugs, aquatic animal, aquatic gastropod mollusks within the large clade Heterobranchia. Acochlidia is a variant ...
.
Taxonomy
Asperspinidae has been listed as a synonym of
Parhedylidae in the
taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).
Sensu Schrödl & Neusser (2010)
[Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)". '']Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
The ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering zoology published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Linnean Society. The editor-in-chief is Maarten Christenhusz (Linnean Society) ...
'' 158: 124-154. . is ''Asperspina'' is the only genus in the family Asperspinidae.
Minicheviellidae is a junior synonym of Asperspinidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Asperspina'' include:
* ''
Asperspina brambelli'' (Swedmark, 1968)
* ''
Asperspina murmanica'' (Kudinskaya & Minichev, 1978)
- synonym: ''Minicheviella murmanica'' (Kuchinskaja & Minichev, 1978)
* ''
Asperspina rhopalotecta'' Salvini-Plawen, 1973
* ''
Asperspina loricata'' (Swedmark, 1968)
* ''
Asperspina riseri'' (Morse, 1976)
References
Further reading
* "Heartless and primitive? 3D reconstruction of the polar acochlidian gastropod ''Asperspina murmanica''".
* Hochberg R. (2007). "Serotonin-like Immunoreactivity in the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems of the Interstitial Acochlidean ''Asperspina'' sp. (Opisthobranchia)". ''
Biological Bulletin
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'' 213: 43-54
HTM
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Asperspinidae