Caliphyllidae

Caliphyllidae
Cyerce nigricans on Chlorodesmis fastigiata. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 4 cm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia informal group Opisthobranchia clade Sacoglossa clade Plakobranchacea
Superfamily:	Limapontioidea
Family:	Caliphyllidae Tiberi, 1881
Synonyms
Phyllobranchidae Bergh, 1871 (inv.) Polybranchiidae O'Donoghue, 1929 Lobiferidae Pruvot-Fol, 1947 Phyllobranchillidae Risbec, 1953

Caliphyllidae is a taxonomic family of sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the clade Sacoglossa.^[1]

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

There are five genera in the family Caliphyllidae:^[2][3]

• Caliphylla A. Costa, 1867
• Cyerce Bergh, 1871
• Mourgona Marcus & Marcus, 1970
• Polybranchia Pease, 1860
• Sohgenia Hamatani, 1991

Genera brought into synonymy 

• Branchophyllum Pruvot-Fol, 1947 : synonym of Polybranchia Pease, 1860
• Lobifera Pease, 1866  : synonym of Polybranchia Pease, 1860
• Phyllobranchillus Pruvot-Fol, 1933  : synonym of Polybranchia Pease, 1860
• Phyllobranchus Alder & Hancock, 1864  : synonym of Polybranchia Pease, 1860

• 

  Polybranchia orientalis

References

1. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2).
2. Jensen K. R. (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics and classification of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B Biological Sciences 351(1335 ): 91-122. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0006.
3. Händeler K., Grzymbowski Y. P., Krug P. J. & Wägele H. (2009) "Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life". Frontiers in Zoology 6: 28. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-28 PMID 19951407.