Facelinidae

Facelinidae
From left to right in each row, from top to bottom: Cratena peregrina , Facelina rubrovittata , Pteraeolidia ianthina , and Herviella albida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Aeolidacea
Superfamily:	Aeolidioidea
Family:	Facelinidae Bergh, 1889 [1]
Genera
See Taxonomy
Synonyms [2]
Caloriidae Odhner, 1968 Cratenidae Bergh, 1889 Favorinidae Bergh, 1889 Phidianidae Odhner, 1968 Phyllodesmiidae Thiele, 1931

The Facelinidae is a family of aeolid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs. ^{[2] [3]}

Taxonomy

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, this family contains the following subfamilies: ^[3]

• Facelininae Bergh, 1889 ^[1] - synonyms: Caloriidae Odhner, 1968; Phidianidae Odhner, 1968; Pruvotfoliinae Tardy, 1970
• Babakininae Roller, 1973 ^[4] - synonym: Babainidae Roller, 1972 (inv.) ^[5]
• Crateninae Bergh, 1889 ^[6] - synonym: Rizzoliinae Odhner, 1939 (inv.)
• Favorininae Bergh, 1889 ^[7] - synonyms: Myrrhinidae Bergh, 1905; Phyllodesmiinae Thiele, 1931; Facalaninae Er. Marcus, 1958 ^[8]
• Herviellinae Burn, 1967 ^[9]
• Pteraeolidiinae Risbec, 1953 ^[10]

In 2007, Gosliner and colleagues elevated the subfamily Babakininae to family Babakinidae. ^[11]

According to Korshunova and colleagues (2025), the following genera are recognised in the family Aeolidiidae: ^[12]

• Adfacelina Millen & Hermosillo, 2012
• Algarvia Garcia-Gomez & Cervera, 1989
• Amanda Macnae, 1954
• Anetarca Gosliner, 1991 ^[13]
• Antonietta Schmekel, 1966
• Austraeolis Burn, 1962
• Bajaeolis Gosliner & Behrens, 1986
• Burnaia Miller, 2001
• Caloria Trinchese, 1888
• Cratena Bergh, 1864
• Dicata Schmekel, 1967
• Echinopsole Macnae, 1954
• Emarcusia Roller, 1972
• Facelina Alder & Hancock, 1855
• Facelinopsis Pruvot-Fol, 1954
• Hermosita Gosliner & Behrens, 1986
• Herviella Baba, 1949
• Janssonius Ortea and Moro, 2022
• Jason Miller, 1974
• Learchis Bergh, 1896
• Moridilla Bergh, 1888
• Myja Bergh 1896
• Noumeaella Risbec, 1937
• Palisa Edmunds, 1964
• Pauleo Millen & Hamann, 1992
• Phidiana Gray, 1850
• Pruvotfolia Tardy, 1969
• Pteraeolidia Bergh, 1875
• Sakuraeolis Baba, 1965
• Setoeolis Baba & Hamatani 1965

See also

• Facelinopsis marioni
• Facelinopsis pacodelucia
• Pruvotfolia longicirrha
• Pruvotfolia pselliotes
• Pruvotfolia rochebruni

References

1. Bergh R. 1889. In: Carus J. V. Prodromus Faunae Mediterraneae, volume 2, Brachiostomata, Mollusca, Tunicata, Vertebrata. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, 854 pp. Facelininae is on the page 213.
2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Facelinidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=191 on 2012-07-22
3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
4. Roller R. A. (1 July 1973). The Veliger16(1): 118.
5. Roller R. A. (1 April) 1972. The Veliger, 14(4): 416.
6. Bergh R. 1889. In: Carus J. V. Crateninae is on the page 209.
7. Bergh R. 1889. In: Carus J. V. Favorininae is on the page 212.
8. Marcus E. G. G. (August) 1958. American Museum Novitates, 1906: 59-60.
9. Burn. (31 December) 1967. Malacologia, 6(1-2): 228.
10. Risbec. 1953. Faune de l'Union Française, 15: 161.
11. Gosliner T. M., Gonzáles-Duarte M. M. & Cervera J. L. (2007). "Revision of the systematics of Babakina Roller, 1973 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) with the description of a new species and a phylogenetic analysis". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151(4): 671-689. doi : 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00331.x.
12. Korshunova, Tatiana; Fletcher, Karin; Martynov, Alexander (1 August 2025). "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.
13. Francisco J. Garcia; Jesus S. Troncoso (2004). "A new species of the genus Anetarca Gosliner 1991 (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Facelinidae) from the Western Atlantic Ocean". The Nautilus. 118 (4): 139–143. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2009.

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