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Family of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dotidae are a taxonomic family of small sea slugs, nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs formerly assigned to the order Opisthobranchia, but now considered to belong to the clade Dexiarchia.
Dotidae | |
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Doto cf. pinnatifida, South Africa. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Superfamily: | Dendronotoidea |
Family: | Dotidae Gray, 1853 |
Genera | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
Iduliidae |
This family has also been spelled in the past as "Dotonidae" and "Dotoidae". The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) decided in 1964 that neither spelling was correct and adopted Dotidae Gray, 1853 as the accepted name for this family.[1][2]
This family occurs worldwide in cold and warm seas.[3]
Genera within the family Dotidae include:[4]
Synonyms include:
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