Meanings
nounnotaspidean (plural notaspideans)
plural notaspideans
- A sea slug of the former suborder Notaspidea, now split into clades Umbraculida and Pleurobranchomorpha.
Responses to low concentrations of food extract have been best documented in the carnivorous notaspidean Pleurobranchaea californica.
2012, The Mollusca: Physiology, page 10Synonyms: sidegill slug
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA sea slug of the former suborder Notaspidea, now split into clades Umbraculida and Pleurobranchomorpha.
Similar
sidegill slug
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