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Family: | Titiscaniidae |
Genus: | Titiscania |
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Titiscania limacina Bergh, 1890 |
Titiscania is a genus of slug-like sea snails, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Neritopsoidea.[2][3]
Titiscania is the type genus[2] and also the only genus in the family Titiscaniidae.
The original vernacular spelling "Die Titiscanien" by Rudolph Bergh (1890)[1] was Latinized by Johannes Thiele in 1891.[2]
Excepting some parasitic forms, Titiscania is the only genus of gastropod outside of the Heterobranchia to have secondarily lost its mineralized shell,[4] which it sheds after its larval phase.[5]
Species within the genus Titiscania include: