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| Pseudovermidae | |
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| Habitus of Pseudovermis paradoxus (j), its lateral teeth (k), and egg mass (l) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidacea |
| Superfamily: | Cumanotoidea |
| Family: | Pseudovermidae Thiele, 1931[1] |
| Type genus | |
| Pseudovermis Periaslavzeff, 1891 | |
| Genera | |
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See Genera | |
Pseudovermidae is a taxonomic family of minute nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs, within the superfamily Cumanotoidea.[2] These extremely small sea slugs are meiofauna, living among sand grains.
Genera
[edit]According to Korshunova and colleagues (2025), the following genera are recognised in the family Pseudovermidae:[3][4][5]
- Pseudovermis Periaslavzeff, 1891
References
[edit]- ↑ Thiele J. (1931) Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde, 1(2): 453.
- ↑ Pseudovermidae Thiele, 1931. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 January 2019.
- ↑ Korshunova, Tatiana; Fletcher, Karin; Martynov, Alexander (2025-08-01). "The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204 (4). doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf057. ISSN 0024-4082.
- ↑ Powell A. W. B. (1979) New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ↑ "Pseudovermidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
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