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Limacina
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Limacina

Limacina is a genus of swimming predatory sea snails commonly known as sea butterflies in the family Limacinidae. This genus contains some of the world's most abundant gastropod species.

Etymological meaning of the generic name Limacina is "snail-like".

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Helicid Pteropod

speciesLimacina helicina

Limacina rangii

speciesLimacina rangii

Retrovert pteropod

speciesLimacina retroversa

Limacina trochiformis

speciesLimacina trochiformis

Limacina lesueurii

speciesLimacina lesueurii

Limacina bulimoides

speciesLimacina bulimoides

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55316.