Hedylopsis

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Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Rank Family		Phylum Mollusca Scientific name Hedylopsidae
Genus HedylopsisThiele, 1931 Similar Pontohedyle, Pseudunela cornuta, Pneumodermatidae

Hedylopsis is a genus of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks within the clade Acochlidiacea.

Taxonomy

Hedylopsidae has been classified within the superfamily Hedylopsoidea in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).

Sensu Schrödl & Neusser (2010) Hedylopsis is the only genus in the family Hedylopsidae. It is placed within unranked clade Hedylopsacea.

There are only two species in the genus Hedylopsis:

Hedylopsis spiculifera (Kowalevsky, 1901)

Hedylopsis ballantinei Sommerfeldt & Schrödl, 2005

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