Cuthonidae is a
family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
of
sea slugs
Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are sea snails (marine gastropod mollusks) that, over evolutionary t ...
, aeolid
nudibranch
Nudibranchs () are a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs, belonging to the order Nudibranchia, that shed their shells after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colours and striking forms, and they have b ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s in the superfamily
Fionoidea
Fionoidea is a superfamily of small sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs. They are gastropod mollusks within the suborder Cladobranchia. The families within Fionoidea were shown to be monophyletic on DNA evidence and a re-interpretation of family chara ...
.
Taxonomic history
This family was reinstated as a result of a molecular phylogenetics study.
[Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017)]
Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea.
Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.
Genera
Genera within the family Cuthonidae include:
* ''
Bohuslania''
Korshunova, Lundin, Malmberg, Picton & Martynov, 2018
* ''
Cuthona''
Alder & Hancock, 1855
References
External links
Tatiana Korshunova, Kennet Lundin, Klas Malmberg, Bernard Picton, Alexander Martynov: First true brackish-water nudibranch mollusc provides new insights for phylogeny and biogeography and reveals paedomorphosis-driven evolution; PLOS, ONE, March 14, 2018*
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Gastropod families