Dendronotoidea

Superfamily of gastropods

Dendronotoidea
Notobryon wardi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Clade: Dexiarchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Dendronotoidea
Allman, 1845
Synonyms
  • Dendronotida
  • Dendronotina
Dendronotus albus

Dendronotoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of small colorful sea slugs or nudibranchs, aeolid nudibranchs.[1]

Families

Families placed in this superfamily are as follows.

  • Bornellidae Bergh, 1874
  • Dendronotidae Allman, 1845
  • Dotidae Gray, 1853
  • Hancockiidae MacFarland, 1923
  • Lomanotidae Bergh, 1890
  • Phylliroidae Menke, 1830
  • Scyllaeidae Alder & Hancock, 1855
  • Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Dendronotoidea Allman, 1845. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182 on 2022-12-03

External links

  • Odhner N. H. (1934). The Nudibranchiata of British Antarctic Expedition. British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910. Natural history reports. Zoology. 7: 229-310
  • Goodheart, J. A.; Bazinet, A. L.; Valdés, Á.; Collins, A. G.; Cummings, M. P. (2017). Prey preference follows phylogeny: evolutionary dietary patterns within the marine gastropod group Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1)
Taxon identifiers
Dendronotoidea


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