Calmidae Explained

Calmidae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs with only one genus and two species. These are specifically aeolid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Fionoidea.^[1]

This family has no subfamilies.^[2]

Taxonomic history

The genera in this family were moved to the family Fionidae as a result of a molecular phylogenetics study.^[3]

Biology

Species in this family have an unusual diet for Nudibranchs. They feed on fish eggs.

External links

• Animal Diversity - University of Michigan
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp.
• Marine species database
• Proc. malac. Soc. London 15: 200

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. . Rocroi, J.-P. . 2005 . Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families . Malacologia . 47 . 1–2 .
2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Calmidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-14
3. Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, L.; Ekimova, I; Chichvarkhin, A; Schepetov, D; Gosliner, T. M. (2016). A radical solution: The phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae. PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0167800.