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Bornellidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Bornellidae

Higher classification
  
Dendronotoidea

Superfamily
  
Tritonioidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Family

Bornellidae

Similar
  
Tritoniidae, Dotidae, Bornella stellifer, Tritonioidea, Actinocyclidae

Bornellidae is a family of sea snails or sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tritonioidea.

Contents

This family is within the clade Cladobranchia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Taxonomy

The family Bornellidae consists of the following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Genera

  • Bornella Gray, 1850 (with at least ten species)
  • Bornellopsis O'Donoghue, 1929
  • Pseudobornella Baba, 1932 (monotypic : P. orientalis)
  • References

    Bornellidae Wikipedia