Fionoidea

Fionoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Nudipleura; clade Nudibranchia; clade Dexiarchia; clade Cladobranchia; clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:	Fionoidea; Gray, 1857
Families
	See text

Fionoidea is a superfamily of small sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs. They are gastropod mollusks within the clade Aeolidida.^[1] The families within Fionoidea were shown to be monophyletic on DNA evidence and a re-interpretation of family characteristics was provided.^[2]

Families

Families within the superfamily Fionoidea are as follows:^[1]

Family Calmidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923
Family Cuthonellidae Miller, 1971
Family Cuthonidae Odhner, 1934
Family Eubranchidae Odhner, 1934
Family Fionidae Gray, 1857
Family Pseudovermidae Thiele, 1931
Family Tergipedidae Bergh, 1889
Family Trinchesiidae F. Nordsieck, 1972

References

1 2 Bouchet, P. (2010). Fionoidea Gray, 1857. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-23.
↑ 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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[WoRMS-1] 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2010). Fionoidea Gray, 1857. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-23.

[2] 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.