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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 {{heterobranchia-stub