Elysiidae

Taxobox
name = Elysiidae

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image_caption = "Elysia crispata"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Opisthobranchia
subordo = Sacoglossa
familia = Elysiidae
familia_authority = Forbes & Hanley, 1851
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

Elysiidae is a family of gastropod sea slugs resembling nudibranchs. They are members of the suborder Sacoglossa in the order Opisthobranchia.

This family was originally described as Elysiadae by Forbes & Hanley in 1851 in the book "A history of British Mollusca and their Shells" 3:613. In the new taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the family Elysiidae is considered a synonym of the family Placobranchidae Gray, 1840

Genera

* "Bosellia" Trinchese, 1891
* "Elysia" Risso, 1818 (type genus)
* "Thuridilla" Bergh, 1872

References

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