Cuthonidae
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| Cuthonidae | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Aeolidida |
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| Family: | Cuthonidae Odhner, 1934 |
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Cuthonidae is a family of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Fionoidea.[1]
Taxonomic history[edit]
This family was reinstated as a result of a molecular phylogenetics study.[2]
Genera[edit]
Genera within the family Cuthonidae include:
- Bohuslania Korshunova, Lundin, Malmberg, Picton & Martynov, 2018
- Cuthona Alder & Hancock, 1855
References[edit]
- ^ Picton, B.; Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Cuthonidae Odhner, 1934. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2017-11-02.
- ^ Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea. Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.
External links[edit]
- Tatiana Korshunova, Kennet Lundin, Klas Malmberg, Bernard Picton, Alexander Martynov: First true brackish-water nudibranch mollusc provides new insights for phylogeny and biogeography and reveals paedomorphosis-driven evolution; PLOS|ONE, March 14, 2018
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