Dendronotoidea
Appearance
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Notobryon wardi | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Clade: | Dexiarchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Superfamily: | Dendronotoidea Allman, 1845 |
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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
- ^ 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)