Tritonioidea
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| Melibe leonina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea Lamarck, 1809 |
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Tritonioidea is a superfamily of sea slugs, nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the Suborder Cladobranchia.[1]
Taxonomic history
Tritonioidea was the only superfamily in the clade Dendronotida. The taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi for the clade Dendronotida was largely based on the classification established by Boss in 1982,[2] who in turn based his conclusions on the study by Odhner in 1968.[3]
The study of Wägele and Willan, published in 2000,[4] concluded that Dendronotida is monophyletic, although this monophyly had been questioned, based on the wide variety in sperm morphology, in a paper by Healy & Willan in 1991.[5]
Taxonomy
Taxonomy in the Superfamily Tritonoidea is as follows:[1]
Superfamily Tritonioidea
- Family Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809
Families currently accepted as synonyms:
- Family Aranucidae Odhner, 1936 accepted as Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809
- Family Duvauceliidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923 accepted as Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809
References
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Tritonioidea Lamarck, 1809. Accessed on 2021-01-09.
- ^ K.J. Boss : Mollusca (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms vol.1. New York: McGraw Hill. pp. 945–1166.
- ^ N.H. Odhner (1968). "On the taxonomic position of the "Rhodopacea" (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Arkiv för Zoologi. 20 (13): 253–259.
- ^ H. Wägele & R.C. Willan (2000). "Phylogeny of the Nudibranchia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 130 (1): 83–181. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb02196.x.
- ^ J.M. Healy & R.C. Willan (1991). "Nudibranch spermatozoa : comparative ultrastructure and systematic importance". The Veliger. 34 (2): 134–165.