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Gastropteridae
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Gastropteridae

Gastropteridae, the bat-winged slugs, is a family of sea slugs, gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Philinoidea of the clade Cephalaspidea, the headshield slugs and bubble snails. The greatest diversity of these colourful small slugs is in the tropical and sub-tropical Indo-Pacific region.

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4 branches of this family, most-observed first

Sagaminopteron

genusSagaminopteron

Siphopteron

genusSiphopteron

Gastropteron

genusGastropteron

Enotepteron

genusEnotepteron

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