Syphonota
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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Syphonota
| status = Conservation status: Secure
| image = Syphonota Geographica, Antalya, Turkey 1.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Geographic Sea Hare
Syphonota geographica
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Mollusca
| classis = Gastropoda
| subclassis = Orthogastropoda
| superordo = Heterobranchia
| ordo = Opisthobranchia
| subordo = Anaspidea
| superfamilia = Aplysioidea
| familia = Aplysiidae
| genus = Syphonota
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
Syphonota geographica
}}
Syphonota (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) is a genus of sea hare, belonging to the family Aplysiidae.
A more general description can be found on the page of the superfamily Aplysioidea.
Syphonota differs with the other genera, through the position of the rhinophores (= head tentacles), which are further back, almost between the parapodial lobes.
- Syphonota geographica (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) or Geographic Sea Hare
- Distribution : in lagoons, bays or on sandy bottoms of the Indo-West Pacific, Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
- Length : 10 cm
- Color : whitish to green with brown specks, with a complicated network of white lines (hence the name 'geographica'); high parapodia (= fleshy winglike outgrowths).