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Pseudovermis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Pseudovermidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Aeolidioidea

Scientific name
  
Pseudovermis

Similar
  
Paradoris, Ringicula, Onchidoris, Favorinus, Goniodoris

Pseudovermis salamandrops an interstitial sea slug


Pseudovermis is genus of minute sea slugs, specifically aolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pseudovermidae.

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These extremely small sea slugs are meiofauna; they live among sand grains. Pseudovermis means fake worm, because these slugs resemble minute worms.

nudipleura fionoidea pseudovermis


Species

Species within the genus Pseudovermis include:

  • Pseudovermis artabrensis Urgorri, Cobo & Besteiro, 1991
  • Pseudovermis axi Marcus Ev. & Er., 1955
  • Pseudovermis boadeni Salvini-Plawen & Sterrer, 1968
  • Pseudovermis chinensis Hughes, 1991
  • Pseudovermis hancocki Challis, 1969
  • Pseudovermis indicus Salvini-Plawen & G.C. Rao, 1973
  • Pseudovermis japonicus Hamatani & Nunomura, 1973
  • Pseudovermis kowalewskyi Salvini-Plawen & Sterrer, 1968
  • Pseudovermis mortoni Challis, 1969
  • Pseudovermis papillifer Kowalewsky, 1901
  • Pseudovermis paradoxus Periaslavzev, 1891
  • Pseudovermis salamandrops Ev. Marcus, 1953
  • Pseudovermis schultzi Marcus Ev. & Er., 1955
  • Pseudovermis setensis Fize, 1961
  • Pseudovermis soleatus Salvini-Plawen & G.C. Rao, 1973
  • Pseudovermis thompsoni Salvini-Plawen, 1991
    • Species brought into synonymy
  • Pseudovermis papillifera Kowalevsky, 1901: synonym of Pseudovermis papillifer Kowalewsky, 1901

    • References

    Pseudovermis Wikipedia
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