Definition of Aplysiidae

1. Noun. Sea hares.

Exact synonyms: Family Aplysiidae, Family Tethyidae, Tethyidae
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Nudibranchia, Order Nudibranchia
Member holonyms: Aplysia, Genus Aplysia, Genus Tethus, Tethys

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aplysiidae

Apios tuberosa
Apis mellifera
Apis mellifera adansonii
Apis mellifera scutellata
Apium
Apium graveolens
Apium graveolens dulce
Apium graveolens rapaceum
Aplectrum
Aplectrum hyemale
Aplodontia
Aplodontia rufa
Aplodontiidae
Aplysia
Aplysia punctata
Aplysiidae (current term)
Apocalypse
Apocalypses
Apocalypticism
Apocrypha
Apocryphal
Apocynaceae
Apocynum
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Apocynum cannabinum
Apocynum pumilum
Apodemus
Apodemus sylvaticus
Apodidae
Apodiformes

Literary usage of Aplysiidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Aplysiidae. Sea hares. Body large; shell rudimentary and internal; animal slug-like, with the anterior angles of the head extended into 2 large tentacular ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"Aplysiidae. — Characters those of the section. Genera: (Fig. 287 D), shell arched, flattened, animal large (the "sea hare"); Dolabella,shell sub-triangular ..."

3. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"The Aplysiidae have a widely open mantle-cavity, ... Aplysiidae. Shell internal, but the sac in which it lies opens by a pore in the centre of the dorsal ..."

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