Myrrhinidae

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Myrrhinidae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
Family: Myrrhinidae
Bergh, 1905
Genera

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The Myrrhinidae is a family of aeolid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs. [1]

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Taxonomy

DNA studies found the Facelinidae to be polyphyletic and this family was brought back into use to partially resolve that situation. [2]

According to Korshunova and colleagues (2025), the following genera are recognised in the family Myrrhinidae: [3]

References

  1. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Myrrhinidae Bergh, 1905. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2022-10-09.
  2. ↑ Martynov, Alexander; Mehrotra, Rahul; Chavanich, Suchana; Nakano, Rie; Kashio, Sho; Lundin, Kennet; Picton, Bernard; Korshunova, Tatiana (2019). "The extraordinary genus Myja is not a tergipedid, but related to the Facelinidae s. STR. With the addition of two new species from Japan (Mollusca, Nudibranchia)". ZooKeys (818): 89–116. Bibcode:2019ZooK..818...89M. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.818.30477 . PMC   6354008 . PMID   30723380.
  3. ↑ 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.
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