Philinoglossidae
Encyclopedia
Philinoglossidae is a family
of marine snail
s, gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Philinoidea
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of marine snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Philinoidea
Philinoidea
Philinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of sea slugs, specifically headshield slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cephalaspidea.-Anatomy:They are generally small animals, and have no shell or gills...
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Genera
- Philinoglossa Hertling, 1932
- Philinoglossa helgolandica Hertling, 1932
- Philinoglossa remanei Marcus & Marcus, 1958
- Sapha Marcus, 1959
- Sapha amicorum E. Marcus, 1959