Nudipleura

Nudipleura are a clade of sea snails and sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks within the large clade Heterobranchia.

Nudipleura
Chromodoris willani, a nudibranch
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Infraclass:	Euthyneura
Clade:	Nudipleura Wägele & Willan, 2000[1]
Clades
clade Pleurobranchomorpha clade Nudibranchia

Taxonomy

Berthella martensi, a pleurobranch.

2005 taxonomy

In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005),[2] the clade Nudipleura is arranged as follows:

• Clade Nudipleura
  • Clade Pleurobranchomorpha
  • Clade Nudibranchia
    • Clade Euctenidiacea
    • Clade Dexiarchia
      • Clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea
      • Clade Cladobranchia
        • Clade Euarminida
        • Clade Dendronotida
        • Clade Aeolidida

2010 taxonomy

Jörger et al. (2010)[3] have classified Nudipleura within Heterobranchia as a separate clade as follows:

Heterobranchia

Lower Heterobranchia (including Acteonoidea) - Lower Heterobranchia does not form a clade in the study by Jörger et al. (2010):[3]   Euthyneura Nudipleura   Pleurobranchomorpha     Nudibranchia       Euopisthobranchia   Umbraculoidea         Runcinacea       Anaspidea     Pteropoda         Cephalaspidea s.s.       Panpulmonata     Siphonarioidea     Sacoglossa           Glacidorboidea       Amphiboloidea     Pyramidelloidea           Hygrophila       Acochlidiacea   Eupulmonata   Stylommatophora       Systellommatophora       Ellobioidea       Otinoidea     Trimusculoidea

References

1. Wägele H. & Willan R. C. (September 2000). "Phylogeny of the Nudibranchia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 1 (1): 83–181. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb02196.x.
2. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
3. Jörger K. M.; Stöger I.; Kano Y.; Fukuda H.; Knebelsberger T.; Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10: 323. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-323. PMC 3087543. PMID 20973994.

External links

• Sea Slug Forum