Aeolidioidea Explained

Aeolidioidea is a superfamily of sea slugs, the aeolid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the suborder Cladobranchia.

Taxonomy

As of 2019, the superfamily Aeolidioidea consisted of the following families:

• Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827
• Babakinidae Roller, 1973
• Facelinidae Bergh, 1889
• Flabellinopsidae Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017
• Glaucidae Gray, 1827
• Myrrhinidae Bergh, 1905
• Notaeolidiidae Eliot, 1910
• Piseinotecidae Edmunds, 1970
• Pleurolidiidae Burn, 1966

Synonyms of families within this superfamily include:

• Caloriidae (accepted as Facelinidae)
• Cratenidae (accepted as Facelinidae)
• Favorinidae (accepted as Facelinidae)
• Phidianidae (accepted as Facelinidae)
• Phyllodesmiidae (accepted as Myrrhinidae)
• Protaeolidiellidae (accepted as Pleurolidiidae)
• Spurillidae (accepted as Aeolidiidae)

Gosliner et al. (2007) elevated the subfamily Babakininae, which was within Facelinidae, to the family level, as Babakinidae.^[1] A study of facelinid relationships in 2019 removed several facelinid genera to the family Myrrhinidae.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Gosliner T. M., Gonzáles-Duarte M. M. & Cervera J. L. (2007). "Revision of the systematics of Babakina Roller, 1973 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) with the description of a new species and a phylogenetic analysis". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151(4): 671-689. .
2. Martynov, A.; Mehrotra, R.; Chavanich, S.; Nakano, R.; Kashio, S.; Lundin, K.; Picton, B.; Korshunova, T. (2019). The extraordinary genus Myja is not a tergipedid, but related to the Facelinidae s. str. with the addition of two new species from Japan (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). ZooKeys. 818: 89-116.