Dendrodorididae
Appearance
Dendrodorididae | |
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Doriopsilla albopunctata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Superfamily: | Phyllidioidea |
Family: | Dendrodorididae O'Donoghue, 1924 |
Genera | |
See text. | |
Synonyms | |
Doridopsidae Alder & Hancock, 1864 |
Dendrodorididae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the Superfamily Phyllidioidea.
Genera
[edit]A maximum-parsimony analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the 16S mtDNA gene, performed in 2003, has shown that the family Dendrodoridae is paraphyletic.[1] Genera in the family Dendrodorididae presently include:
- Dendrodoris Ehrenberg, 1831
- Doriopsilla Bergh, 1880
References
[edit]- ^ Valdés, Angel (2003). "Preliminary molecular phylogeny of the radula-less Dorids (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia), based on 16S MTDNA sequence data". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 69 (1). Oxford Journals: 75–80. doi:10.1093/mollus/69.1.75. ISSN 1464-3766.
- "Dendrodorididae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1