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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of opisthobranchiate gastropods with a long body, auriform tentacles, large simple or wing-like epipodia, long narrow foot, and small thin and slightly spiral shells incompletely covering the body. It contains the genera Oxynoë and Lobiger, found in the Mediterranean, the Antilles, and Polynesia.

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