Dotidae

Dotidae
Doto pinnatifida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda

clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
Family: Dotidae
Gray, 1853
Genera

See text
Synonyms

Iduliidae

Dotidae are a taxonomic family of small sea slugs, nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the order Opisthobranchia.

This family has also been spelled in the past as "Dotonidae" and "Dotoidae". The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) decided in 1964 that neither spelling was correct and adopted Dotidae Gray, 1853 as the accepted name for this family.[1][2]

This family is unassigned to a superfamily.

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Distribution

This family occurs worldwide in warm seas.[3]

Description

Genera

Genera within the family Dotidae include[4]:

References

  1. ^ International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1964) "Doto Oken, 1815 (Gastropoda): validated under the plenary powers". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21(2): 97-100.
  2. ^ Rudman B. (9 March 2004) Dotidae or Dotoidae?. accessed 7 November 2009.
  3. ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  4. ^ Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification - Family Dotidae -. Accessed 7 November 2009.

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