Hancockiidae

Hancockiidae
Hancockia californica
Hancockia californica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Dendronotacea
Superfamily: Dendronotoidea
Family: Hancockiidae
MacFarland, 1923

Hancockiidae is a family of nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs or sea slugs, in the superfamily Dendronotoidea.[1]

Taxonomy

Hancockiidae has been recovered as sister to the assemblage of the families Bornellidae and Dotidae.[2]

Genera

The family Hancockiidae includes only one valid genus:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Hancockiidae MacFarland, 1923". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2026-03-01.
  2. ^ 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.

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