Akeridae
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| Akeridae | |
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| shells of Akera bullata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Euopisthobranchia clade Aplysiomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Akeroidea Mazzarelli, 1891 |
| Family: | Akeridae Mazzarelli, 1891 [1] |
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Akeridae is a small taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs belonging to the superfamily Akeroidea, the sea hares. The family, in its original spelling "Aceridae", has previously been attributed in error to Pilsbry, 1893.
Akeridae is the only family in the superfamily.
[edit] Genera
Genera and species in the family Akeridae include:
- Genus Anderssonia
- Anderssonia sphinx (Strebel, 1908), occurring in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.
- Genus Akera O. F. Müller, 1776 - type genus
[edit] References
- ^ Mazzarelli, G. (1891). "Intorno all'apparato riproduttore di alcuni Tectibranchi (Pleurobranchaea, Oscanius, Acera)". Zoologischer Anzeiger 14: 237–243.
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