The Dexiarchia are a
suborder of
sea slug
Sea slug is a common name for some Marine biology, marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial Slug, slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are Sea snail, sea snails (marine gastropod moll ...
s, shell-less
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 order
Nudibranchia.
This classification is based on the study by Schrödl ''et al.,'' published in 2001, who recognized within this clade two clades Pseudoeuctenidiacea and Cladobranchia.
Taxonomy
Clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea ( = Doridoxida)
*Superfamily
Doridoxoidea
**Family
Doridoxidae
Clade Cladobranchia ( = Cladohepatica)
Contains the subclades Euarminida, Dendronotida and Aeolidida
*Not assigned to a superfamily (
Metarminoidea
Metarminoidea is a provisional taxonomic superfamily of colourful sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the clade Nudibranchia.Gofas, S. (2014). Metarminoidea Odhner, 1968. Accessed through: World Register ...
)
**Family
Charcotiidae
**Family
Dironidae
**Family
Embletoniidae
**Family
Goniaeolididae
''Goniaeolis'' is a Monotypic taxon, monotypic genus of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusc in the family (biology), family Goniaeolididae containing the single species ''Goniaeolis typica''.Gofas, S. (2014).''Gonia ...
**Family
Heroidae
**Family
Madrellidae
**Family
Pinufiidae
**Family
Proctonotidae
Subclade Euarminida
*Superfamily
Arminoidea
**Family
Arminidae
**Family
Doridomorphidae
Subclade Dendronotida
*Superfamily
Tritonioidea
**Family
Tritoniidae
Tritoniidae is a taxonomic family of nudibranchs in the suborder Cladobranchia, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs.MolluscaBase (2018)Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809.Accessed on 2021-01-01 This family includes some of the largest known nudibranch ...
**Family
Aranucidae
**Family
Bornellidae
**Family
Dendronotidae
**Family
Dotidae
**Family
Hancockiidae
**Family
Lomanotidae
**Family
Phylliroidae
**Family
Scyllaeidae
**Family
Tethydidae
Subclade Aeolidida
*Superfamily
Flabellinoidea ( = Pleuroprocta)
**Family
Flabellinidae
**Family
Notaeolidiidae
*Superfamily
Fionoidea
**Family
Fionidae
**Family
Calmidae
**Family
Eubranchidae
**Family
Pseudovermidae
**Family
Tergipedidae
*Superfamily
Aeolidioidea
**Family
Aeolidiidae
**Family
Facelinidae
**Family
Glaucidae
**Family
Piseinotecidae
References
Nudipleura
Nudibranchia
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