Aeolidioidea
| Aeolidioidea | |
|---|---|
| From left to right of each row, from top to bottom: Phyllodesmium sp. (Myrrhinidae), Aeolidia filomenae (Aeolidiidae), Facelina rhodopos (Facelinidae), and Glaucus atlanticus (Glaucidae) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidacea |
| Superfamily: | Aeolidioidea J.E. Gray, 1827 |
| Families | |
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See Taxonomy | |
Aeolidioidea is a superfamily of nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs or sea slugs, in the suborder Aeolidacea.[1][2]
Taxonomy
Gosliner et al. (2007) elevated the subfamily Babakininae, which was within Facelinidae, to the family level, as Babakinidae.[3]
In 2017, Bouchet and colleagues listed the following families inside Aeolidioidea:[4]
- Family Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827
- Family Babakinidae Roller, 1973
- Family Facelinidae Bergh, 1889
- Subfamily Facelininae Bergh, 1889
- Subfamily Crateninae Bergh, 1889
- Subfamily Favorininae Bergh, 1889
- Subfamily Herviellinae Burn, 1967
- Subfamily Pteraeolidiinae Risbec, 1953
- Family Glaucidae Gray, 1827
- Family Piseinotecidae Edmunds, 1970
- Family Pleurolidiidae Burn, 1966
- Family Unidentiidae Millen & Hermosillo, 2012
A study of facelinid relationships in 2019 removed several facelinid genera to the family Myrrhinidae.[5]
2025 revision
A 2025 revision of the taxonomy of Aeolidacea by Korshunova and colleagues recognised, based on the results of molecular phylogenetic analysises, the following families in the superfamily Aeolidioidea:[2]
- Family Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827
- Family Babakinidae Roller 1973
- Family Facelinidae Bergh, 1899
- Family Favorinidae Bergh, 1899
- Family Glaucidae Gray, 1827
- Family Myrrhinidae Bergh, 1905
- Family Pleurolidiidae Burn, 1966
References
- ^ Aeolidioidea Gray, 1827. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 January 2019.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Gosliner T. M., Gonzáles-Duarte M. M. & Cervera J. L. (2007). "Revision of the systematics of Babakina Roller, 1973 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) with the description of a new species and a phylogenetic analysis". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151(4): 671-689. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00331.x.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Martynov, A.; Mehrotra, R.; Chavanich, S.; Nakano, R.; Kashio, S.; Lundin, K.; Picton, B.; Korshunova, T. (2019). The extraordinary genus Myja is not a tergipedid, but related to the Facelinidae s. str. with the addition of two new species from Japan (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). ZooKeys. 818: 89-116.