Aeolidioidea

Superfamily of gastropods

Aeolidioidea
Spanish shawl, Flabellinopsis iodinea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
J.E. Gray, 1827
Families

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Aeolidioidea is a superfamily of sea slugs, the aeolid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the suborder Cladobranchia.[1]

Taxonomy

As of 2019, the superfamily Aeolidioidea consisted of the following families:[1]

  • Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827
  • Babakinidae Roller, 1973
  • Facelinidae Bergh, 1889
  • Flabellinopsidae Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017
  • Glaucidae Gray, 1827
  • Myrrhinidae Bergh, 1905
  • Notaeolidiidae Eliot, 1910
  • Piseinotecidae Edmunds, 1970
  • Pleurolidiidae Burn, 1966

Synonyms of families within this superfamily include:

Gosliner et al. (2007) elevated the subfamily Babakininae, which was within Facelinidae, to the family level, as Babakinidae.[2] A study of facelinid relationships in 2019 removed several facelinid genera to the family Myrrhinidae.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Aeolidioidea Gray, 1827. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 January 2019.
  2. ^ Gosliner T. M., Gonzáles-Duarte M. M. & Cervera J. L. (2007). "Revision of the systematics of Babakina Roller, 1973 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) with the description of a new species and a phylogenetic analysis". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151(4): 671-689. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00331.x.
  3. ^ Martynov, A.; Mehrotra, R.; Chavanich, S.; Nakano, R.; Kashio, S.; Lundin, K.; Picton, B.; Korshunova, T. (2019). The extraordinary genus Myja is not a tergipedid, but related to the Facelinidae s. str. with the addition of two new species from Japan (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). ZooKeys. 818: 89-116.
Taxon identifiers
Aeolidioidea