Hancockiidae

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Hancockiidae
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Hancockia californica
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Hancockia californica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Dendronotacea
Superfamily: Dendronotoidea
Family: Hancockiidae
MacFarland, 1923

Hancockiidae is a family of nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs or sea slugs, in the superfamily Dendronotoidea. [1]

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Taxonomy

Hancockiidae has been recovered as sister to the assemblage of the families Bornellidae and Dotidae. [2]

Genera

The family Hancockiidae includes only one valid genus: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Hancockiidae MacFarland, 1923". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2026-03-01.
  2. ↑ Goodheart, Jessica A.; Bazinet, Adam L.; Valdés, Ángel; Collins, Allen G.; Cummings, Michael P. (2017-10-26). "Prey preference follows phylogeny: evolutionary dietary patterns within the marine gastropod group Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 221. doi: 10.1186/s12862-017-1066-0 . ISSN   1471-2148. PMC   5659023 . PMID   29073890.

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