Nudipleura

Nudipleura
Chromodoris willani, a nudibranch
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura Wägele & Willan, 2000[1]
Clades
clade Pleurobranchomorpha clade Nudibranchia

Nudipleura are a clade of sea snails and sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks within the large clade Heterobranchia.

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005)^[2], the clade Nudipleura is arranged as follows:

• Clade Nudipleura
  • Clade Pleurobranchomorpha
  • Clade Nudibranchia
    • Clade Euctenidiacea
    • Clade Dexiarchia
      • Clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea
      • Clade Cladobranchia
        • Clade Euarminida
        • Clade Dendronotida
        • Clade Aeolidida

2010 taxonomy

Jörger et al. (2010)^[3] have classified Nudipleura within Heterobranchia as a separate clade as follows:

Heterobranchia

Lower Heterobranchia (including Acteonoidea) - Lower Heterobranchia does not form a clade in the study by Jörger et al. (2010):[3] Euthyneura Nudipleura Euopisthobranchia Umbraculoidea Runcinacea Anaspidea Pteropoda Cephalaspidea s.s. Panpulmonata Siphonarioidea Sacoglossa Glacidorboidea Amphiboloidea Pyramidelloidea Hygrophila Acochlidiacea Eupulmonata Stylommatophora Systellommatophora Ellobioidea Otinoidea Trimusculoidea

References

1. ^ Wägele H. & Willan R. C. (September 2000). "Phylogeny of the Nudibranchia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1 (1): 83–181. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb02196.x. 
2. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2). 
3. ^ ^{a b} Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-323.

External links

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