Family PLAKOBRANCHIDAE Gray, 1840

Family Plakobranchidae. Plakobranchus ocellatus. (from Beesley, Ross & Wells 1998) [R. Plant]

Museums

Regional Maps

• Plakobranchidae Gray, J.E. 1840. Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. London : G. Woodfall and Son 42nd Edn., 1st impression (16 October 1840), [iv] + 370 pp.

  Type genus:

   Placobranchus van Hasselt, 1824.

Introduction

Plakobranchids are animals without shells except during early development. Body usually slender and soft, with a parapodial flange along each side of the posterior two thirds of the body length. The inner (medial) face of each parapodium is marked with raised ribs that lead to the pericardium that lies between the anterior ends of the parapodia. The pattern of the raised ribs can be useful in separating some species. Compiled from Burn (in press).

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [966]

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42

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