Aeolidioidea
Superfamily of gastropods
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::summary Superfamily of gastropods ::
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Aeolidioidea is a superfamily of sea slugs, the aeolid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the suborder Cladobranchia.
Taxonomy
As of 2019, the superfamily Aeolidioidea consisted of the following families:
- 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:
- Caloriidae (accepted as Facelinidae)
- Cratenidae (accepted as Facelinidae)
- Favorinidae (accepted as Facelinidae)
- Phidianidae (accepted as Facelinidae)
- Phyllodesmiidae (accepted as Myrrhinidae)
- Protaeolidiellidae (accepted as Pleurolidiidae)
- Spurillidae (accepted as Aeolidiidae)
Gosliner et al. (2007) elevated the subfamily Babakininae, which was within Facelinidae, to the family level, as Babakinidae. A study of facelinid relationships in 2019 removed several facelinid genera to the family Myrrhinidae.
References
References
- {{WRMS species. 189. Aeolidioidea Gray, 1827. 8 January 2019
- 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.
- 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.
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