Heroidae

Heroidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
Family: Heroidae
J. E. Gray, 1857
Genera

Hero

Heroidae is a family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Nudipleura. There are no subfamilies in Heroidae.[1]

The only genus in the family is Hero and it has two known species, Hero blanchardi and Hero formosa[2].

References

Sea Slug Forum species list

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2). 
  2. ^ http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138065 accessed 11 March 2011