Fowlerina

Fowlerina

Taxobox
name = "Fowlerina"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
ordo = Opisthobranchia
subordo = Gymnosomata
familia = Clionidae
genus = "Fowlerina"
genus_authority = (Pelseneer, 1906)
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Fowlerina", also known as one kind of "sea angel", is a genus of small sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Clionidae.

Sometimes called pteropods, these are floating pelagic creatures which swim by flapping two wing-like extensions of their body known as parapodia.

Please also see: Sea angel and Clionidae.

pecies in the genus "Fowlerina"

* "Fowlerina punctata" Tesch, 1903
* "Fowlerina zetesios" Pelseneer, 1906


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