Hero (gastropod)
| Heroidae | |
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| Hero formosa depicted in A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca
Part 8 Charles Eliot. | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Family: | Heroidae J. E. Gray, 1857
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Heroidae is a family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Nudipleura. There are no subfamilies in Heroidae.[1]
The only genus in the family is Hero and it has two known species, Hero blanchardi and Hero formosa.[2]
References
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
- ^ http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138065 accessed 11 March 2011
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