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Definition of Aplysiidae
1. Noun. Sea hares.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Nudibranchia, Order Nudibranchia
Member holonyms: Aplysia, Genus Aplysia, Genus Tethus, Tethys
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aplysiidae
Literary usage of Aplysiidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Aplysiidae. Sea hares. Body large; shell rudimentary and internal; animal slug-like,
with the anterior angles of the head extended into 2 large tentacular ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"Aplysiidae. — Characters those of the section. Genera: (Fig. 287 D), shell arched,
flattened, animal large (the "sea hare"); Dolabella,shell sub-triangular ..."
3. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"The Aplysiidae have a widely open mantle-cavity, ... Aplysiidae. Shell internal,
but the sac in which it lies opens by a pore in the centre of the dorsal ..."
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