Global InformationPhyllaplysia taylori information
| Phyllaplysia taylori | |
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| A live individual of Phyllaplysia taylori, head end towards the right | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Mollusca
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| Class: | Gastropoda
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Euopisthobranchia clade Aplysiomorpha |
| Family: | Aplysiidae
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| Genus: | Phyllaplysia
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| Species: | P. taylori
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| Binomial name | |
| Phyllaplysia taylori Dall, 1900
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Phyllaplysia taylori, synonym Phyllaplysia zostericola, common names the "eelgrass sea hare" and "Taylor's sea hare", is a species of sea slug, specifically a sea hare, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares.
Some authors place this genus in a separate family, Dolabriferidae.
A more general description of sea hares can be found on the page of the superfamily Aplysioidea.