Gastropteridae | |
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Mating pair of Siphopteron quadrispinosum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Superfamily: | Philinoidea |
Family: | Gastropteridae Swainson, 1840 [1] |
Synonyms | |
Gasteropteridae (misspelling)[1] |
Gastropteridae, the bat-winged slugs, is a family of sea slugs, gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Philinoidea of the clade Cephalaspidea, the headshield slugs and bubble snails.[2] The greatest diversity of these colourful small slugs is in the tropical and sub-tropical Indo-Pacific region.