Corolla (gastropod)
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Corolla is a genus of pelagic "sea butterflies
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opisthobranch molluscs belonging to the family Cymbuliidae. They are preyed upon by the gymnosome pteropods of the genus Cliopsis.
Sea butterfly
Sea butterflies, also known as Thecosomata or flapping snails, are a taxonomic suborder of small pelagic swimming sea snails. These are holoplanktonic opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the informal group Opisthobranchia. They include some of the world's most abundant gastropod species.This group...
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Holoplankton
Holoplankton are organisms that are planktonic for their entire life cycle. Examples of holoplankton include some diatoms, radiolarians, some dinoflagellates, foraminifera, amphipods, krill, copepods, and salps.-Sources:Asexual Holoplankton:...
opisthobranch molluscs belonging to the family Cymbuliidae. They are preyed upon by the gymnosome pteropods of the genus Cliopsis.
Species
Species within this genus include:- Corolla calceola (A. E. Verrill, 1880) -- Atlantic corolla
- Distribution: Oceanic
- Length: 40 mm
- Corolla intermedia (Tesch, 1903)
- Distribution: Florida, Oceanic
- Length: 39 mm
- Corolla ovata QuoyJean René Constant QuoyJean René Constant Quoy was a French zoologist.Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard he served as naturalist aboard La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey during its circumnavigation of the globe , and the Astrolabe under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville...
& GaimardJoseph Paul GaimardJoseph Paul Gaimard was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.Along with Jean René Constant Quoy he served as naturalist on the ships L'Uranie under Louis de Freycinet 1817-1820, and L'Astrolabe under Jules Dumont d'Urville 1826-1829...
, 1832- Distribution: Florida, Bermuda, Oceanic
- Length: 40 mm
- Corolla spectabilisCorolla spectabilisCorolla spectabilis, common name the spectacular corolla, is a species of sea butterfly, a floating and swimming sea snail or sea slug, a pelagic marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymbuliidae...
(Dall, 1871) Spectacular corolla