Aeolidioidea

Aeolidioidea is a superfamily of sea slugs, the aeolid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the suborder Cladobranchia.[1]

Aeolidioidea
Spanish shawl, Flabellinopsis iodinea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Subclass:Heterobranchia
Order:Nudibranchia
Suborder:Cladobranchia
Superfamily:Aeolidioidea
J.E. Gray, 1827
Families

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Taxonomy

As of 2019, the superfamily Aeolidioidea consisted of the following families:[1]

Synonyms of families within this superfamily include:

Gosliner et al. (2007) elevated the subfamily Babakininae, which was within Facelinidae, to the family level, as Babakinidae.[2] A study of facelinid relationships in 2019 removed several facelinid genera to the family Myrrhinidae.[3]

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