Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Plakobranchoidea Phylum Mollusca | Class Gastropoda Family Plakobranchidae Rank Genus | |
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Similar Plakobranchus ocellatus, Sacoglossa, Elysia timida, Plakobranchidae, Thuridilla | ||
Plakobranchus sp nudibranche
Plakobranchus is a genus of sea slugs, sacoglossans, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Plakobranchidae.
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The author of the genus spelled the name originally as Plakobranchus, but the spelling Placobranchus was a long time the prevailing usage, based on an incorrect subsequent spelling by Férussac (1824) in a translation of van Hasselt's work.
Plakobranchus ocellatus
Species
Species within the genus Plakobranchus include:
Recent work on the photosynthetic abilities of Plakobranchus reveals that P. ocellatus is actually a species complex.
References
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