Bornellidae

Updated on Dec 22, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Bornellidae Higher classification Dendronotoidea		Superfamily Tritonioidea Phylum Mollusca Rank Family

Similar Tritoniidae, Dotidae, Bornella stellifer, Tritonioidea, Actinocyclidae

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

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):

Bornella Gray, 1850 (with at least ten species)

Bornellopsis O'Donoghue, 1929

Pseudobornella Baba, 1932 (monotypic : P. orientalis)

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