Aeolidida

Aeolidida
Family Flabellinopsidae, the Spanish shawl
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Cuvier, 1798[1]
Superfamilies

See text.

The Aeolidida is a taxonomic clade of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Cladobranchia.[2][3] They are distinguished from other nudibranchs by their possession of cerata containing cnidosacs. [4]

Taxonomy

References

  1. Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. 1798. Tableau Élémentaire de l'Histoire Naturelle des Animaux, xvi + 710 pp., 14 pls.
  2. Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  3. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Aeolidida. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2017-11-08
  4. OPK - Opisthobranquis: Aeolidida
  5. Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Bakken, T.; Evertsen, J.; Fletcher, K.; Mudianta, W.; Saito, H.; Lundin, K.; Schrödl, M.; Picton, B. (2017). Polyphyly of the traditional family Flabellinidae affects a major group of Nudibranchia: aeolidacean taxonomic reassessment with descriptions of several new families, genera, and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys. 717: 1-139.
  6. Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea. Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.
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