Laginiopsidae

The Laginiopsidae are a taxonomic family of floating and swimming sea snails, sea slugs or sea angels, pelagic marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the suborder Gymnosomata, the sea angels.

Laginiopsidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Suborder:
Gymnosomata
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Gymnosomata
Family:
Laginiopsidae

(Pruvot-Fol, 1922)
Genera

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These small pelagic snails lack shells (except in their early embryonic stage).

They are carnivorous, equipped with swimming parapoda (fleshy, winglike outgrowths), strong jaws and grasping tentacles, often with suckers resembling those of cephalopods.

Genera and species

Genus and species within the family Laginiopsidae include:

References
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