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Doridina

The Doridina, common name dorid nudibranchs, are a taxonomic suborder of sea snails or slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Nudibranchia. Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) rejected the name Anthobranchia on the grounds that it also included Onchidium at the time of original publication. Doridina is equivalent and used in the latest classification.

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Dorid nudibranchs
Yellow-edge cadlina, Cadlina luteomarginata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Tardy, 1970
Synonyms1
  • Anthobranchia
  • Euctenidiacea
  • Holohepatica

The Doridina, common name dorid nudibranchs, are a taxonomic suborder of sea snails or slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Nudibranchia.2 Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) rejected the name Anthobranchia on the grounds that it also included Onchidium at the time of original publication. Doridina3 is equivalent and used in the latest classification.4

A morphological phylogenetic study, published in 2000, by Wägele & Willan showed that the subclade Gnathodoridacea (= Bathydoridoidea) and the subclade Doridacea (= Phanerobranchia + Cryptobranchia + Porostomata) each form a monophyletic group.5

In a later study, published in 2002, A. Valdés concluded that the superfamilies Doridoidea and Phyllidioidea (called by him Cryptobranchia + Porostomata) formed a clade. He expanded the usage of Cryptobranchia to encompass the whole subclade Doridacea.6 This move was not followed in the taxonomy of Bouchet and Rocroi.

Taxonomy

This list follows the taxonomy presented in Bouchet et al. (2017):4

Infraorder Bathydoridoidei

Infraorder Doridoidei

References

References

  1. Hallas, Joshua M.; Chichvarkhin, Anton; Gosliner, Terrence M. (2017-10-01). "Aligning evidence: concerns regarding multiple sequence alignments in estimating the phylogeny of the Nudibranchia suborder Doridina". Royal Society Open Science. 4 (10) 171095. doi:10.1098/rsos.171095. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 5666284. PMID 29134101.
  2. Gofas, S. (2014). Euctenidiacea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-12
  3. MolluscaBase (2019). Doridina. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2019-02-01.
  4. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Hausdorf, Bernhard; Kaim, Andrzej; Kano, Yasunori; Nützel, Alexander; Parkhaev, Pavel; Schrödl, Michael; Strong, Ellen E. (December 2017). "Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families". Malacologia. 61 (1–2): 1–526. doi:10.4002/040.061.0201. ISSN 0076-2997.
  5. 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.
  6. A. Valdés (2002). "A phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of the cryptobranch dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Anthobranchia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 136 (4): 535–636. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00039.x.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Belick F. P. (1975) "Additional opisthobranch mollusks from Oregon". The Veliger 17(3): 276–277.
  • Goddard J. H. r. (1984) "The opisthobranchs of Cape Arago, Oregon, with notes on their biology and a summary of benthic opisthobranchs known from Oregon". The Veliger 27(2): 143–163.
  • Lance J. R. (1967) "The holotype of the abyssal dorid nudibranch Bathydoris aoica Marcus & Marcus, 1962". The Veliger 9(4): 410.
  • Marcus Ev. & Marcus Er. (1962) "A new species of the Gnathodoridacea". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 34: 269–275.
  • Valdés Á. & Bertsch H. (2000) "Redescription and range extension of Bathydoris aioca Marcus & Marcus, 1962 (Nudibranchia: Gnathodoridoidea)". The Veliger 43(2): 172–178.