Aplysiidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Aplysioidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Heterobranchia Infraclassis: Euthyneura Cohors: Tectipleura Subcohors: Euopisthobranchia Ordo: Aplysiida Superfamilia: Aplysioidea

Familia: Aplysiidae
Genera (11 + †1): Aplysia – Barnardaclesia – Bursatella – Dolabella – Dolabrifera – Notarchus – Paraplysia – Petalifera – Phyllaplysia – Stylocheilus – Syphonota – †Floribella

Name

• Aplysiidae Swainson, 1840: 247, 248, 251 [conserved name]
  • Type genus: Aplysia Linnaeus, 1767
  • Place on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology with the Name Number 512 (Opinion 1182).

Synonyms

• Dolabriferidae (synonym)
• Aplysiinae Lamarck, 1809· accepted, alternate representation
• Dolabriferinae Pilsbry, 1895· accepted, alternate representation
• Notarchinae Mazzarelli, 1893· accepted, alternate representation

References

Primary references

• Swainson, W. 1840. Treatise on malacology: Or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans: London. BHL
• Melville, R.V. 1981. Opinion 1182. Tethyidae in Mollusca, Porifera and Tunicata: removal of the homonymy. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 38(3): 174–177. BHL, Biostor Reference page. 

Additional references

• Klussmann-Kolb, A. 2004. Phylogeny of the Aplysiidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) with new aspects of the evolution of seahares. Zoologica Scripta 33(5): 439–462. DOI: 10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00158.x

Links

• Aplysiidae in the World Register of Marine Species