Umbraculum (gastropod)

Umbraculum
Detailed illustration of Umbraculum umbraculum from 1852
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Umbraculida
Superfamily: Umbraculoidea
Family: Umbraculidae
Genus: Umbraculum
Schumacher, 1817[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Gastroplax Blainville, 1819
  • Umbrella Lamarck, 1819

Umbraculum, common name the "umbrella slugs" is a genus of unusual sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Umbraculidae.[2]

Species

There are probably only two species in the genus Umbraculum.[3]

Other synonymised taxa

References

  1. Schumacher (1817). Essai Vers test. 55: 177.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Umbraculum Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138620 on 2013-04-16
  3. Rudman W. B. (1999 January 14). "Umbraculum mediterraneum (Lamarck, 1819)". Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/umbrmedi accessed 11 January 2011.
  4. World Register of Marine Species
  5. Wägele H., Vonnemann V. & Rudman W. B. (2006). "Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786) (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Tylodinoidea) and the synonymy of U. mediterraneum (Lamarck, 1812)". Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 69: 69-82.
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