Aeolidiidae

Aeolidiidae
Aeolidia papillosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Aeolidacea
Superfamily:	Aeolidioidea
Family:	Aeolidiidae Orbigny, 1834
Genera
See Genera
Synonyms
Aeolididae [1] Eolidininae (Invalid: Placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 780) [2] Pleurolidiidae [2] Protaeolidiellidae [2] Spurillidae [2]

Aeolidiidae is a family of aeolid nudibranchs. ^[2] Most, or perhaps all, members of this family feed on sea anemones and have a distinctive single row of comb-shaped serrated radular teeth. ^[3]

Genera

According to Korshunova and colleagues (2025), the following genera are recognised in the family Aeolidiidae: ^[4]

• Aeolidia Cuvier, 1798
• Aeolidiella Bergh, 1867
• Aeolidiopsis Pruvot-Fol, 1956
• Anteaeolidiella M. C. Miller, 2001
• Baeolidia Bergh, 1888
• Berghia Trinchese, 1877
• Bulbaeolidia Carmona, Pola, Gosliner & Cervera, 2013 ^[5]
• Cerberilla Bergh, 1873
• Limenandra Haefelfinger and Stamm, 1958
• Spurilla Bergh, 1864
• Zeusia Korshunova et al., 2017

References

1. "Aeolididae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
2. Bouchet, P. (2014). Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2014-10-24
3. Domínguez, M.; Troncoso, J. S.; García, F. J. (2008). "The family Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827 (Gastropoda Opisthobranchia) from Brazil, with a description of a new species belonging to the genus Berghia Trinchese, 1877". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 153 (2): 349–368. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00390.x .
4. Korshunova, Tatiana; Fletcher, Karin; Martynov, Alexander (2025-08-01). "The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204 (4). doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf057. ISSN   0024-4082.
5. Carmona L., Pola M., Gosliner T.M. & Cervera J.L. 2013. A tale that morphology fails to tell: A molecular phylogeny of Aeolidiidae (Aeolidida, Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). PLoS ONE 8(5): e63000. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063000

• Gosliner, T.M. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa ISBN   0-930118-13-8

External links

• Aeolidiidae in Malacolog
• Aeolidiidae All related articles in Sea Slug Forum