Arminidae

Arminidae
	Armina neapolitana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Cladobranchia
Superfamily:	Arminoidea
Family:	Arminidae; Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923
Genera
	See text
Synonyms
	Diphyllidiidae d'Orbigny, 1841; Heterodorididae Verrill & Emerton, 1882; Pleuroleuridae Bergh, 1874; Pleurophyllidiidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854;

Arminidae is a family of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arminoidea.

Taxonomy

The family Arminidae is classified within the clade Cladobranchia, itself belonging to the clade Nudibranchia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

This family has been renamed several times. It was originally named by d'Orbigny in 1841 as Diphyllidiidae, by H. Adams and A. Adams as Pleurophyllidiidae in 1854, by Bergh as Pleuroleuridae in 1874, by Verrill and Emerton as Heterodorididae in 1882, by P. Fischer as Dermatobranchidae in 1883 and as Atthilidae by Bergh in 1899. The name Arminidae is now in prevailing usage.

Genera

The type genus is Armina Rafinesque, 1814

Genera in the family Arminidae include:

Armina Rafinesque, 1814
Dermatobranchus van Hasselt, 1824
Histiomena Mörch, 1860
Heterodoris Verrill & Emerton, 1882 . This is a genus, only known from a few specimens
- Heterodoris antipodes Willan, 1981 (Tasman Sea)
- Heterodoris ingolfiana (south of Iceland)
- Heterodoris robusta Verrill & Emerton, 1882 (North Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean)
Pleurophyllidiella Eliot, 1903
Pleurophyllidiopsis Tchang-Si, 1934
Sancara

Species brought into synonymy

Camarga : synonym of Histiomena Mörch, 1860
Diphyllidia : synonym of Armina Rafinesque, 1814
Linguella Férussac, 1822: synonym of Armina Rafinesque, 1814
Pleuroleura : synonym of Dermatobranchus van Hasselt, 1824
Pleurophyllidia : synonym of Armina Rafinesque, 1814

References

^ Gofas, S. (2011). Arminidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2087 on 2011-04-30

Gary R. McDonald, University of California Santa Cruz; 29 July 2006, "Nudibranch Systematic Index", University of California Santa Cruz
Kolb, A. & H. Wägele (1998). "On the phylogeny of the Arminidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia) with considerations of biogeography". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 36: 53–64. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.1998.tb00777.x.
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp

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