Dendronotoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of small colorful sea slugs or

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, aeolid nudibranchs.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

Families

Families placed in this superfamily are as follows. * Bornellidae Bergh, 1874 * Dendronotidae Allman, 1845 *

Dotidae Dotidae are a taxonomic family of small sea slugs, nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs formerly assigned to the order Opisthobranchia, but now considered to belong to the clade Dexiarchia. This family has also been spelled in ...

Gray, 1853 *

Hancockiidae Hancockiidae is a family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tritonioidea. This family is within the clade Cladobranchia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Taxonomy T ...

MacFarland, 1923 * Lomanotidae Bergh, 1890 * Phylliroidae Menke, 1830 *

Scyllaeidae Scyllaeidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Dendronotoidea.Bouchet, P. (2012). Scyllaeidae. Accessed through: World Register of M ...

Alder & Hancock, 1855 * Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815

References

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)
Nudibranchia Gastropod superfamilies {{Heterobranchia-stub