Biology:Dendrodorididae

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Short description: Family of gastropods

Dendrodorididae
Doriopsilla albopunctata mating.jpg
Doriopsilla albopunctata
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Phyllidioidea
Family: Dendrodorididae
O'Donoghue, 1924
Genera

See text.

Synonyms

Doridopsidae Alder & Hancock, 1864

Dendrodorididae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the Superfamily Phyllidioidea.

Genera

A maximum-parsimony analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the 16S mtDNA gene, performed in 2003, has shown that the family Dendrodoridae is paraphyletic.[1] Genera in the family Dendrodorididae presently include:

References

  1. Valdés, Angel (2003). "Preliminary molecular phylogeny of the radula-less Dorids (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia), based on 16S MTDNA sequence data". Journal of Molluscan Studies (Oxford Journals) 69 (1): 75–80. doi:10.1093/mollus/69.1.75. ISSN 1464-3766. 

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