Tritonioidea

Tritonioidea
Melibe leonina in the family Tethydidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Dendronotida
Odhner, 1934
Superfamily: Tritonioidea
Lamarck, 1809
Families
See text

Tritonioidea is a superfamily of small sea slugs, nudibranchs. These are marine gastropod mollusks.[1]

Tritonioidea is the only superfamily in the clade Dendronotida.

The taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi for the clade Dendronotida was largely based on the classification established by Boss in 1982,[2] who in turn based his conclusions on the study by Odhner in 1968.[3]

The study of Wägele and Willan, published in 2000,[4] concluded that Dendronotida is monophyletic, despite the fact that this monophyly had been questioned, based on the wide variety in sperm morphology, in a paper by Healy & Willan in 1991.[5]

Taxonomy

Taxonomy in the clade Dendronotida is as follows:

Superfamily Tritonioidea

References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2). 
  2. ^ K.J. Boss : Mollusca (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms vol.1. New York: McGraw Hill. pp. 945–1166. 
  3. ^ N.H. Odhner (1968). "On the taxonomic position of the "Rhodopacea" (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Arkiv för Zoologi 20 (13): 253–259. 
  4. ^ H. Wägele & R.C. Willan (2000). "Phylogeny of the Nudibranchia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 130 (1): 83–181. 
  5. ^ J.M. Healy & R.C. Willan (1991). "Nudibranch spermatozoa : comparative ultrastructure and systematic importance". The Veliger 34 (2): 134–165. 
  6. ^ http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonTree.aspx?id=989775