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Definition of Nudibranchia
1. Noun. Comprising numerous marine gastropod mollusks lacking a shell in the adult state and usually having a body like a slug.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Opisthobranchia, Subclass Opisthobranchia
Member holonyms: Nudibranch, Sea Slug, Aplysiidae, Family Aplysiidae, Family Tethyidae, Tethyidae, Genus Hermissenda, Hermissenda
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nudibranchia
Literary usage of Nudibranchia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1882)
"... sp. n., Verrill, Am. J. Sci. (3) xx. [1880] p. 398, and PUS Nat. Mus. iii. p.
384, NE Coast of America, 192 fath. nudibranchia. ..."
2. The Journal of Malacology by Walter Edward Collinge (1893)
"His earlier sub-division of the nudibranchia into the two sections, ... Bergh seems
to regard the nudibranchia as diphyletic, for he connects the ..."
3. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"The kidneys of the nudibranchia are strikingly different in form from those of the
... from which the nudibranchia may perhaps be derived, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1844)
"... have by the very complete and philosophical manner in which their investigations
were conducted, thrown the greatest light upon the order nudibranchia. ..."
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