Notomenia
| Notomenia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Solenogastres |
| Family: | Notomeniidae Salvini-Plawen 2004 |
| Genus: | Notomenia Thiele, 1897 |
| Species: | N. clavigera
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| Binomial name | |
| Notomenia clavigera Thiele, 1897
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Notomenia is a genus of solenogasters, shell-less, worm-like, marinemollusks.[1] In this genus the animal bears non-mineralized sclerites.[2] This genus is the sole representative of the family Notomeniidae, and has secondarily reduced its radula, which is vestigial.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ García-Álvarez, Óscar; v. Salvini-Plawen, Luitfried (2007). "Species and diagnosis of the Families and Genera of Solenogastres (Mollusca)" (PDF). Iberus. 25 (2): 73–143. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2011.
- ^ 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): 219–45. doi:10.1002/jmor.10121. PMID 12833382. S2CID 32940079.
- ^ Von Salvini-Plawen, L. (2004). "Contributions to the Morphological Diversity and Classification of the Order Cavibelonia (Mollusca: Solenogastres)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 70: 73. doi:10.1093/mollus/70.1.73.
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