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Arminidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Arminidae

Higher classification
  
Nudibranch

Superfamily
  
Arminoidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Family

Arminidae

Similar
  
Nudibranch, Armina, Dermatobranchus, Molluscs, Gastropods

Arminidae is a family of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arminoidea.

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Taxonomy

The Arminidae family is classified within the clade Cladobranchia, itself belonging to the clade Nudibranchia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

This family has been renamed several times. It was originally named by d'Orbigny in 1841 as Diphyllidiidae, by H. Adams and A. Adams as Pleurophyllidiidae in 1854, by Bergh as Pleuroleuridae in 1874, by Verrill and Emerton as Heterodorididae in 1882, by P. Fischer as Dermatobranchidae in 1883 and as Atthilidae by Bergh in 1899. The name Arminidae is now in prevailing usage.

Genera

The type genus is Armina Rafinesque, 1814

Genera in the family Arminidae include:

  • Armina Rafinesque, 1814
  • Dermatobranchus van Hasselt, 1824
  • Histiomena Mörch, 1860
  • Heterodoris Verrill & Emerton, 1882 . This is a genus, only known from a few specimens
  • Heterodoris antipodes Willan, 1981 (Tasman Sea)
  • Heterodoris ingolfiana (south of Iceland)
  • Heterodoris robusta Verrill & Emerton, 1882 (North Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean)
  • Pleurophyllidiella Eliot, 1903
  • Pleurophyllidiopsis Tchang-Si, 1934
  • Sancara
    • Species brought into synonymy 
  • Camarga : synonym of Histiomena Mörch, 1860
  • Diphyllidia : synonym of Armina Rafinesque, 1814
  • Linguella Férussac, 1822: synonym of Armina Rafinesque, 1814
  • Pleuroleura : synonym of Dermatobranchus van Hasselt, 1824
  • Pleurophyllidia : synonym of Armina Rafinesque, 1814

    • References

    Arminidae Wikipedia
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