Aeolidida
| Aeolidida | |
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| Family Flabellinidae, the Spanish shawl | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamilies | |
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The Aeolidida is a taxonomic clade of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Cladobranchia.[2] They are distinguished from other nudibranchs by their possession of cerata containing cnidosacs. [3]
Taxonomy
- Superfamily Flabellinoidea (= Pleuroprocta) Bergh, 1889
- Family Flabellinidae
- Family Notaeolidiidae
- Superfamily Fionoidea (= Acleioprocta) Gray, 1857
- Family Fionidae
- Family Calmidae
- Family Eubranchidae
- Family Pseudovermidae
- Family Tergipedidae
- Superfamily Aeolidioidea (= Cleioprocta) Gray, 1827
- Family Aeolidiidae
- Family Facelinidae
- Family Glaucidae
- Family Piseinotecidae
References
- ↑ Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. 1798. Tableau Élémentaire de l'Histoire Naturelle des Animaux, xvi + 710 pp., 14 pls.
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1-2).
- ↑ OPK - Opisthobranquis: Aeolidida
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