Biology:Notomenia

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Short description: Genus of molluscs

Notomenia
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Solenogastres
Family: Notomeniidae
Salvini-Plawen 2004
Genus: Notomenia
Thiele, 1897
Species:
N. clavigera
Binomial name
Notomenia clavigera
Thiele, 1897

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

  1. García-Álvarez, Óscar; v. Salvini-Plawen, Luitfried (2007). "Species and diagnosis of the Families and Genera of Solenogastres (Mollusca)". Iberus 25 (2): 73–143. http://www.traduccionesemmett.cl/IANtrabajos/Species%20%20Diagnosis-2007.pdf. 
  2. 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. 
  3. 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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