Nudipleura

Nudipleura
Chromodoris willani, a nudibranch
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura Wägele & Willan, 2000[1]
Clades
clade Pleurobranchomorpha clade Nudibranchia

Nudipleura are a clade of sea snails and sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks within the large clade Heterobranchia.

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005),^[2] the clade Nudipleura is arranged as follows:

• Clade Nudipleura
  • Clade Pleurobranchomorpha
  • Clade Nudibranchia
    • Clade Euctenidiacea
    • Clade Dexiarchia
      • Clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea
      • Clade Cladobranchia
        • Clade Euarminida
        • Clade Dendronotida
        • Clade Aeolidida

2010 taxonomy

Jörger et al. (2010)^[3] have classified Nudipleura within Heterobranchia as a separate clade as follows:

Heterobranchia

Lower Heterobranchia (including Acteonoidea) - Lower Heterobranchia does not form a clade in the study by Jörger et al. (2010):[3] Euthyneura Nudipleura Pleurobranchomorpha Nudibranchia Euopisthobranchia Umbraculoidea Runcinacea Anaspidea Pteropoda Cephalaspidea s.s. Panpulmonata Siphonarioidea Sacoglossa Glacidorboidea Amphiboloidea Pyramidelloidea Hygrophila Acochlidiacea Eupulmonata Stylommatophora Systellommatophora Ellobioidea Otinoidea Trimusculoidea

References

1. 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.
2. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2).
3. Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T., Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-323. PMC 3087543. PMID 20973994.

External links

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