Arminoidea

Arminoidea
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

See text.

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:

References

  1. ^ Charles F. Sturm, Timothy A. Pearce, Ángel Valdés (2006). The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation. Universal-Publishers.com. ISBN 1581129300. 
  2. ^ 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. 
  3. ^ 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 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst.