Arminoidea
| Arminoidea | |
|---|---|
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| Armina californica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia Cladobranchia |
| (unranked): | clade Euarminida |
| Superfamily: | Arminoidea Rafinesque, 1814 |
| Families | |
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Arminoidea is a superfamily of small sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Nudibranchia.[1]
Arminoidea is the only superfamily in the clade Euarminida.
Families
A study, published in 2000,[2] has demonstrated that Arminoidea is paraphyletic.
The taxonomy of the Arminoidea in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005)[3] contains two families as follows:
- Family Arminidae
- Family Doridomorphidae
References
- ↑ Charles F. Sturm, Timothy A. Pearce, Ángel Valdés (2006). The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation. Universal-Publishers.com. ISBN 1-58112-930-0.
- ↑ Wägele H. & Willan R. C. (September 2000). "Phylogeny of the Nudibranchia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1 (1): 83–181. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb02196.x.
- ↑ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
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