Scyllaeidae
Scyllaeidae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Dendronotoidea.[1]
| Scyllaeidae | |
|---|---|
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| A live individual of the iridescent nudibranch, Notobryon wardi, head end towards the left | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Clade: | Dexiarchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Dendronotoidea |
| Family: | Scyllaeidae Alder & Hancock, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Notobryon wardi Odhner, 1936 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tritonioidea | |
This family is within the suborder Cladobranchia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera
Genera in the family Scyllaeidae include:
- Crosslandia Eliot, 1902
- Notobryon Odhner, 1936
- Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Nerea Lesson, 1831: synonym of Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758
- Zoopterygius Osbeck, 1757: synonym of Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758 (non-binomial)
References
- http://www.catalogueoflife.org/ Retrieved 16 September 2009
- http://www.seaslugforum.net/ Retrieved 16 September 2009
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
- Pola M., Camacho-Garcia Y.E. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Molecular data illuminate cryptic nudibranch species: the evolution of the Scyllaeidae (Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) with a revision of Notobryon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 311–336
- Bouchet, P. (2012). Scyllaeidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23115 on 2012-06-07
External links
- Goodheart, J. A.; Bazinet, A. L.; Valdés, Á.; Collins, A. G.; Cummings, M. P. (2017). Prey preference follows phylogeny: evolutionary dietary patterns within the marine gastropod group Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1)
- Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397
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