Aeolidida

The Aeolidida is a taxonomic clade of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Cladobranchia.^[1][2] They are distinguished from other nudibranchs by their possession of cerata containing cnidosacs. ^[3]

Aeolidida
Family Flabellinopsidae, the Spanish shawl
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Aeolidida
Superfamilies
See text

Taxonomy

• Superfamily Flabellinoidea (= Pleuroprocta) Bergh, 1889^[4]
  • Family Apataidae Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017
  • Family Coryphellidae Bergh, 1889
  • Family Cumanotidae Odhner, 1907
  • Family Flabellinidae Bergh, 1889
  • Family Flabellinopsidae Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017
  • Family Notaeolidiidae Eliot, 1910
  • Family Paracoryphellidae M. C. Miller, 1971
  • Family Samlidae Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017
• Superfamily Fionoidea (= Acleioprocta) Gray, 1857^[5]
  • Family Calmidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923
  • Family Cuthonellidae Miller, 1971
  • Family Cuthonidae Odhner, 1934
  • Family Eubranchidae Odhner, 1934
  • Family Fionidae Gray, 1857
  • Family Pseudovermidae Thiele, 1931
  • Family Tergipedidae Bergh, 1889
  • Family Trinchesiidae F. Nordsieck, 1972
• Superfamily Aeolidioidea (= Cleioprocta) Gray, 1827
  • Family Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827
  • Family Facelinidae Bergh, 1889
  • Family Glaucidae Gray, 1827
  • Family Piseinotecidae Edmunds, 1970
  • Family Pleurolidiidae Burn, 1966
  • Family Unidentiidae Millen & Hermosillo, 2012

References

1. Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Aeolidida. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2017-11-08
3. OPK - Opisthobranquis: Aeolidida
4. Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Bakken, T.; Evertsen, J.; Fletcher, K.; Mudianta, W.; Saito, H.; Lundin, K.; Schrödl, M.; Picton, B. (2017). Polyphyly of the traditional family Flabellinidae affects a major group of Nudibranchia: aeolidacean taxonomic reassessment with descriptions of several new families, genera, and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys. 717: 1-139.
5. Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea. Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.