Costasiellidae

Costasiellidae is a taxonomic family of small to minute sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.[1]

Costasiellidae
Costasiella cf. kuroshimae on Avrainvillea erecta. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 1 cm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Sacoglossa
clade Plakobranchacea
Superfamily:
Limapontioidea
Family:
Costasiellidae

K. B. Clarke, 1984
Genera

See text.

These sea slugs resembling nudibranchs, but are not closely related to them.

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

The following genera belong to the family Costasiellidae:

  • Costasiella Pruvot-Fol, 1951
  • Panderevela Moro & Ortea, 2015

References
  1. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Costasiellidae K. B. Clarke, 1984. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23012 on 2015-01-17
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