Notomenia

Notomenia
Notomenia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: "Aplacophora"
Subclass: Solenogastres
Order: Cavibelonia
Family: Notomeniidae
Salvini-Plawen 2004
Genus: Notomenia
Thiele, 1897
Binomial name
N. clavigera
Thiele, 1897

Notomenia is a genus of aplacophoran that bears non-mineralized sclerites.[1] It is the sole representative of the family Notomeniidae, and has secondarily reduced its radula, which is vestigial.[2]

References

  1. ^ Scheltema, A. H.; Kerth, K.; Kuzirian, A. M. (2003). "Original molluscan radula: Comparisons among Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, and the Cambrian fossil Wiwaxia corrugata". Journal of Morphology 257 (2): 219. doi:10.1002/jmor.10121. PMID 12833382.  edit
  2. ^ Von Salvini-Plawen, L. (2004). "Contributions to the Morphological Diversity and Classification of the Order Cavibelonia (Mollusca: Solenogastres)". Journal Molluscan Studies 70: 73. doi:10.1093/mollus/70.1.73.  edit
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