Dendrodorididae
Dendrodorididae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the Superfamily Phyllidioidea.
| Dendrodorididae | |
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| Doriopsilla albopunctata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Doridina |
| Superfamily: | Phyllidioidea |
| Family: | Dendrodorididae O'Donoghue, 1924 |
| Genera | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Doridopsidae Alder & Hancock, 1864 | |
Genera
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
- Valdés, Angel (2003). "Preliminary molecular phylogeny of the radula-less Dorids (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia), based on 16S MTDNA sequence data". Journal of Molluscan Studies. Oxford Journals. 69 (1): 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
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