Biology:Proctonotidae

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Short description: Family of gastropods

Proctonotidae
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Caldukia rubiginosa, Hen & Chicken Islands, Northland, New Zealand, photo by Ian Skipworth
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Superfamily: Proctonotoidea
Family: Proctonotidae
Gray, 1853
Genera

See text

Synonyms

Veniliidae Chenu, 1859 (inv.)
Zephyrinidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923

Proctonotidae is a family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs, in the clade Euthyneura.[1]

Genera

Genera in the family Proctonotidae include:

Genera brought into synonymy
  • Venilia Alder & Hancock, 1844: synonym of Proctonotua Alder & Hancock, 1844
  • Zephyrina Quatrefages, 1844: synonym of Proctonotus Alder & Hancock, 1844

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Proctonotidae Gray, 1853. Accessed on 2020-10-20.
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN:0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp

Wikidata ☰ Q3198665 entry