Doridina

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title: "Doridina" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["nudibranchia"] description: "Suborder of gastropods" topic_path: "general/nudibranchia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doridina" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Suborder of gastropods ::

| name = Dorid nudibranchs | image = Cadlina luteomarginata.jpg | image_caption = Yellow-edge cadlina, Cadlina luteomarginata | taxon = Doridina | authority = Tardy, 1970 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms =

• Anthobranchia
• Euctenidiacea
• Holohepatica

The Doridina, common name dorid nudibranchs, are a taxonomic suborder of sea snails or slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Nudibranchia. Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) rejected the name Anthobranchia on the grounds that it also included Onchidium at the time of original publication. Doridina is equivalent and used in the latest classification.

A morphological phylogenetic study, published in 2000, by Wägele & Willan showed that the subclade Gnathodoridacea (= Bathydoridoidea) and the subclade Doridacea (= Phanerobranchia + Cryptobranchia + Porostomata) each form a monophyletic group.

In a later study, published in 2002, A. Valdés concluded that the superfamilies Doridoidea and Phyllidioidea (called by him Cryptobranchia + Porostomata) formed a clade. He expanded the usage of Cryptobranchia to encompass the whole subclade Doridacea. This move was not followed in the taxonomy of Bouchet and Rocroi.

Taxonomy

This list follows the taxonomy presented in Bouchet et al. (2017):

Infraorder Bathydoridoidei

• Superfamily Bathydoridoidea
  • Family Bathydorididae

Infraorder Doridoidei

• Unassigned to Superfamily

  • Family Okadaiidae

• Superfamily Doridoidea

  • Family Dorididae
  • Family Discodorididae

• Superfamily Polyceroidea

  • Family Polyceridae

• Superfamily Chromodoridoidea

  • Family Chromodorididae
  • Family Actinocyclidae
  • Family Hexabranchidae
  • Family Cadlinidae

• Superfamily Onchidoridoidea

  • Family Onchidorididae
  • Family Aegiridae
  • Family Akiodorididae
  • Family Calycidorididae
  • Family Corambidae
  • Family Goniodorididae

• Superfamily Phyllidioidea

  • Family Phyllidiidae
  • Family Dendrodorididae
  • Family Mandeliidae

References

References

1. (2017-10-01). "Aligning evidence: concerns regarding multiple sequence alignments in estimating the phylogeny of the Nudibranchia suborder Doridina". Royal Society Open Science.
2. Gofas, S. (2014). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382232 Euctenidiacea.] Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-12
3. MolluscaBase (2019). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1052385 '''Doridina.'''] Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2019-02-01.
4. H. Wägele & R.C. Willan. (2000). "Phylogeny of the Nudibranchia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
5. A. Valdés. (2002). "A phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of the cryptobranch dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Anthobranchia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
6. Bouchet, Philippe. (December 2017). "Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families". Malacologia.

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