Doridoxidae

Doridoxidae
Doridoxidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia

clade Dexiarchia

(unranked): clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea
Superfamily: Doridoxoidea
Bergh, 1900
Family: Doridoxidae
Bergh, 1899
genera

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Doridoxidae, commonly known as dorid nudibranchs, are a taxonomic family of medium to large, shell-less sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Nudibranchia within the clade Dexiarchia.[1]

Doridoxidae is the only family in the superfamily Doridoxoidea, within the clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea (= Doridoxida).

Genera

The family Doridoxidae is a small family with only one genus Doridoxa : [1]

  • Doridoxa benthalis Barnard, 1963
  • Doridoxa ingolfiana Bergh, 1899 - the type genus

References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1–2). 
  • Bergh 1900 : Danske Ingolf-Exped., 2 (3), 1, 16.