Nudipleura

Nudipleura
Chromodoris willani , a nudibranch
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subterclass:	Ringipleura
Superorder:	Nudipleura Wägele & Willan, 2000 [1]
Clades
clade Pleurobranchomorpha clade Nudibranchia

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

Taxonomy

Berthella martensi , a pleurobranch.

2005 taxonomy

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

• Clade Nudipleura
  • Clade Pleurobranchomorpha
  • Clade Nudibranchia
    • Family Bathydeviidae ^[3]
    • Clade Euctenidiacea
    • Clade Dexiarchia
      • Clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea
      • Clade Cladobranchia
        • Clade Euarminida
        • Clade Dendronotida
        • Clade Aeolidida

2010 taxonomy

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

Heterobranchia

Lower Heterobranchia (including Acteonoidea) - Lower Heterobranchia does not form a clade in the study by Jörger et al. (2010): [4] Euthyneura Nudipleura Pleurobranchomorpha Nudibranchia Euopisthobranchia Umbraculoidea Runcinacea Anaspidea Pteropoda Cephalaspidea s.s. Panpulmonata Siphonarioidea Sacoglossa Glacidorboidea Amphiboloidea Pyramidelloidea Hygrophila Acochlidiacea Eupulmonata Stylommatophora Systellommatophora Ellobioidea Otinoidea Trimusculoidea

References

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. Bibcode:2024DSRI..21404414R. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104414 . ISSN   0967-0637.
4. 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 (1): 323. Bibcode:2010BMCEE..10..323J. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-323 . PMC   3087543 . PMID   20973994.

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