Elysiidae

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Elysiidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Heterobranchia
Order: Opisthobranchia
Suborder: Sacoglossa
Family: Elysiidae
Forbes & Hanley, 1851
Genera

See text.

Elysiidae is a family of gastropod sea slugs resembling nudibranchs. They are members of the suborder Sacoglossa in the order Opisthobranchia.

This family was originally described as Elysiadae by Forbes & Hanley in 1851 in the book A history of British Mollusca and their Shells 3:613. In the new taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the family Elysiidae is considered a synonym of the family Placobranchidae Gray, 1840

[edit] Genera

  • Bosellia Trinchese, 1891
  • Elysia Risso, 1818 (type genus)
  • Thuridilla Bergh, 1872

[edit] References