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

Nudipleura
Chromodoris willani, a nudibranch
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subterclass: Ringipleura
Superorder: Nudipleura
Wägele & Willan, 2000[1]
Clades

Taxonomy

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Berthella martensi, a pleurobranch.

2005 taxonomy

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

2010 taxonomy

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Jörger et al. (2010)[4] have classified Nudipleura within Heterobranchia as a separate clade as follows:

Heterobranchia

References

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  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. ^ Robison, Bruce H.; Haddock, Steven H. D. (2024-12-01). "Discovery and description of a remarkable bathypelagic nudibranch, Bathydevius caudactylus, gen. et. sp. nov". Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 214: 104414. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104414. ISSN 0967-0637.
  4. ^ 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. PMC 3087543. PMID 20973994.
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