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Dexiarchia 
cloes-up of anterior end of Janolus fuscus, family Proctonotidae Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia(unranked): clade Dexiarchia
Schrödl et al., 2001Clades - clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea
- clade Cladobranchia
The Dexiarchia are a clade of sea slugs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Nudipleura.[1] This classification is based on the study by Schrödl et al., published in 2001, who recognized within this clade two clades Pseudoeuctenidiacea and Cladobranchia.[2]
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Taxonomy
Clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea ( = Doridoxida)
- Superfamily Doridoxoidea
- Family Doridoxidae
Clade Cladobranchia ( = Cladohepatica)
Contains the subclades Euarminida, Dendronotida and Aeolidida
- Not assigned to a superfamily
- Family Charcotiidae
- Family Dironidae
- Family Dotidae
- Family Embletoniidae
- Family Goniaeolididae
- Family Heroidae
- Family Madrellidae
- Family Pinufiidae
- Family Proctonotidae
Subclade Euarminida
- Superfamily Arminoidea
- Family Arminidae
- Family Doridomorphidae
Subclade Dendronotida
- Superfamily Tritonioidea
- Family Tritoniidae
- Family Aranucidae
- Family Bornellidae
- Family Dendronotidae
- Family Hancockiidae
- Family Lomanotidae
- Family Phylliroidae
- Family Scyllaeidae
- Family Tethydidae
Subclade Aeolidida
- Superfamily Flabellinoidea ( = Pleuroprocta)
- Family Flabellinidae
- Family Notaeolidiidae
- Superfamily Fionoidea
- Family Fionidae
- Family Calmidae
- Family Eubranchidae
- Family Pseudovermidae
- Family Tergipedidae
- Superfamily Aeolidioidea
- Family Aeolidiidae
- Family Facelinidae
- Family Glaucidae
- Family Piseinotecidae
References
- ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1–2).
- ^ M. Schrödl, H. Wägele & R.C. Willan (2001). "Taxonomic rediscrioption of the Doridoxidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia), an enigmatic family of deep water nudibranchs with discussion of the basal nudibranch phylogeny". Zoologischer Anzeiger 240: 83–97. doi:10.1078/0044-5231-00008. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B7GJF-4DR7H7H-9&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=5ab09f208881e4c08fe41a330ad97b3a.
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