Thalassopterus zancleus

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Thalassopterus zancleus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Clade: Euopisthobranchia
Family: Clionidae
Genus: Thalassopterus
Kwietniewski, 1910 [1]
Species:
T. zancleus
Binomial name
Thalassopterus zancleus

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.

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References

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. "Thalassopterus zancleus". Marine Species Identification Portal, accessed 16 September 2010.