Umbraculidae

Taxobox
name = Umbraculidae


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Opisthobranchia
subordo = Notaspidea
familia = Umbraculidae
familia_authority = Dall, 1889
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

Umbraculidae are a taxonomic family of unusual sea snails or limpets, marine opistobranch gastropod molluscs in the order Notaspidea.

These are primitive pleurobranchs (side-gilled sea slugs) in which a large limpet-like external shell still remains as a protection for the gill plumes.

Distribution

These opisthobranch limpets are found world-wide in tropical and subtropical seas.

Genera

* "Umbraculum" Schumacher, 1817
* "Spiricella" Rang, 1828

References

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* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://www.taxonomy.nl/taxonomicon/TaxonTree.aspx?id=694548] ]