Tritonioidea
Appearance
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Melibe leonina in the family Tethydidae | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Dendronotida Odhner, 1934
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Superfamily: | Tritonioidea Lamarck, 1809
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Tritonioidea is a superfamily of small sea slugs, nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Dendronotida.[1]
Tritonioidea is 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 clade Dendronotida is as follows:
Superfamily Tritonioidea
- Family Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809
- Family Aranucidae Odhner, 1936
- Family Bornellidae Bergh, 1874
- Family Dendronotidae Allman, 1845
- Family Hancockiidae MacFarland, 1923
- Family Lomanotidae Bergh, 1890
- Family Phylliroidae Menke, 1830
- Family Scyllaeidae Alder & Hancock, 1855
- Family Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815[6]
References
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- ^ Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
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suggested) (help) - ^ 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.
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