Scyllaeidae is a
taxonomic
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family
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of sea
slugs
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,
nudibranchs,
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the superfamily
Dendronotoidea
Dendronotoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of small colorful sea slugs or nudibranchs, aeolid nudibranchs. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Dendronotoidea Allman, 1845. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.mar ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2012). Scyllaeidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23115 on 2012-06-07]
This family is within the suborder
Cladobranchia (according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera
Genera in the family Scyllaeidae include:
*''
Crosslandia''
Eliot, 1902
*''
Notobryon''
Odhner, 1936
*''
Scyllaea''
Linnaeus, 1758
;Genera brought into synonymy:
* ''Nerea''
Lesson, 1831: synonym of ''Scyllaea''
Linnaeus, 1758
* ''Zoopterygius''
Osbeck, 1757: synonym of ''Scyllaea''
Linnaeus, 1758 (non-binomial)
References
*http://www.catalogueoflife.org/ Retrieved 16 September 2009
*http://www.seaslugforum.net/ Retrieved 16 September 2009
* Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp.
Pola M., Camacho-Garcia Y.E. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) ''Molecular data illuminate cryptic nudibranch species: the evolution of the Scyllaeidae (Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) with a revision of Notobryon''. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 311–336
External links
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) Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397
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