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Dendrodorididae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Dendrodorididae

Higher classification
  
Nudibranch

Superfamily
  
Phyllidioidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Family

Dendrodorididae

Lower classifications
  
Dendrodoris, Doriopsilla, Doriopsilla albopunctata, Dendrodoris krebsii, Scribbled nudibranch

Dendrodorididae unidentified species


Dendrodorididae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the Superfamily Phyllidioidea.

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Genera

A maximum-parsimony analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the 16S mtDNA gene, performed in 2003, has shown that the family Dendrodoridae is paraphyletic. Genera in the family Dendrodorididae presently include:

  • Dendrodoris Ehrenberg, 1831
  • Doriopsilla Bergh, 1880
  • References

    Dendrodorididae Wikipedia