Plakobranchidae

Plakobranchidae
A live individual of Elysia crispata, head end towards the lower right
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superfamily: Plakobranchoidea
Family: Plakobranchidae
Gray, 1840[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Placobranchidae Gray, 1840
  • Actaeonidae Allman, 1845
  • Boselliidae Ev. Marcus, 1982
  • Elysiidae Forbes & Hanley, 1851

Plakobranchidae is a family of sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plakobranchoidea.[2] They superficially resemble nudibranchs but they are sacoglossans, members of the clade Sacoglossa within the Opisthobranchia.

Two Plakobranchus ocellatus seaslugs
Thuridilla carlsoni
  1. ^ Gray J. E. (1840). Shells of molluscious animals. In: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, ed. 42: 121, 148.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference WoRMS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).