Platyhedylidae

Platyhedylidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Sacoglossa
clade Placobranchacea
Superfamily: Placobranchoidea
Family: Platyhedylidae
Salvini-Plawen, 1973[1]
Synonyms

Gascoignellidae Jensen, 1985

Platyhedylidae is a family of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks.[2]

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

There are two genera in the family Platyhedylidae[3][4]:

References

  1. ^ Salvini-Plawen L. von (June 1973). Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 11(2): 128.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2). 
  3. ^ Jensen K. R. (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics and classification of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Philosophical Transactions of the Rpyal Society London B Biological Sciences 351(1335 ): 91-122. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0006.
  4. ^ Händeler K., Grzymbowski Y. P., Krug P. J. & Wägele H. (2009) "Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life". Frontiers in Zoology 6: 28. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-28.