notaspidean

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notaspidean (plural notaspideans)

  1. A sea slug of the former suborder Notaspidea, now split into clades Umbraculida and Pleurobranchomorpha.
    • 2012, The Mollusca: Physiology, page 10:
      Responses to low concentrations of food extract have been best documented in the carnivorous notaspidean Pleurobranchaea californica.

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