Clionoidea

Clionoidea
Clionoidea
Clione limacina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Gymnosomata
Superfamily: Clionoidea
Families

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Clionoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of sea slugs, specifically naked (i.e. unshelled) pteropods, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the clade Gymnosomata.[1] They are sometimes called "sea angels" along with the other superfamily in the Gymnosomata.

Taxonomy

In the new taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the superfamily Clionoidea consists of the following families :

References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2). 
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