Thalassopterus
| Thalassopterus zancleus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Euopisthobranchia |
| Order: | Pteropoda |
| Family: | Clionidae |
| Genus: | Thalassopterus Kwietniewski, 1910[1] |
| Species: | T. zancleus |
| Binomial name | |
| Thalassopterus zancleus Kwietniewski, 1910[1] | |
Thalassopterus zancleus is a species of swimming sea slug, a shell-less pelagic marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Clionidae.[2]
Thalassopterus zancleus is the only species in the monotypic genus Thalassopterus. It is known only from juveniles stages.[3] Adults have not yet been found.
References
[edit]- 1 2 (in German) Kwietniewski C. (1910). "Ueber die Larven eines unbekannten Gymnosomes Pteropoden (Thalassopterus zancleus)". Zoologischer Anzeiger 36(14–15): 257-271, 9 figs. page 270.
- ↑ Gofas, S. (2009). Thalassopterus zancleus Kwietniewski, 1910. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139183 on 2010-09-16
- ↑ "Thalassopterus zancleus". Marine Species Identification Portal, accessed 16 September 2010.