| Dendronotoidea | |
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| From left to right in each row, from top to bottom: Dendronotus frondosus (Dendronotidae), Phylliroe bucephala (Phylliroidae), Hancockia californica (Hancockiidae), Doto greenamyeri (Dotidae), Scyllaea fulva (Scyllaeidae), Melibe viridis (Tethydidae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Dendronotacea Odhner, 1934 |
| Superfamily: | Dendronotoidea Allman, 1845 |
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Dendronotoidea is a superfamily of nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs or sea slugs, and the only member of the suborder Dendronotacea.1
Families
The following families are recognised in the superfamily Dendronotoidea:21
- Family Bornellidae Bergh, 1874
- Family Dendronotidae Allman, 1845
- Family Dotidae Gray, 1853
- Family Hancockiidae MacFarland, 1923
- Family Lomanotidae Bergh, 1890
- Family Phylliroidae Menke, 1830
- Family Scyllaeidae Alder & Hancock, 1855
- Family Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815
References
References
- Korshunova, Tatiana; Fletcher, Karin; Martynov, Alexander (2025-08-01). "The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204 (4). doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf057. ISSN 0024-4082.
- Korshunova, Tatiana; Martynov, Alexander (2020-11-20). "Consolidated data on the phylogeny and evolution of the family Tritoniidae (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) contribute to genera reassessment and clarify the taxonomic status of the neuroscience models Tritonia and Tochuina". PLOS ONE. 15 (11) e0242103. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0242103. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 7679014. PMID 33216784.
Further reading
Further reading
- Karmeinski, Dario; Meusemann, Karen; Goodheart, Jessica A.; Schroedl, Michael; Martynov, Alexander; Korshunova, Tatiana; Wägele, Heike; Donath, Alexander (2021-12-28). "Transcriptomics provides a robust framework for the relationships of the major clades of cladobranch sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia), but fails to resolve the position of the enigmatic genus Embletonia". BMC Ecology and Evolution. 21 (1): 226. doi:10.1186/s12862-021-01944-0. ISSN 2730-7182. PMC 8895541. PMID 34963462.
- Goodheart, Jessica A.; Bazinet, Adam L.; Valdés, Ángel; Collins, Allen G.; Cummings, Michael P. (2017-10-26). "Prey preference follows phylogeny: evolutionary dietary patterns within the marine gastropod group Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 221. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1066-0. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 5659023. PMID 29073890.