Dendrodorididae Explained

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

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.^[1] Genera in the family Dendrodorididae presently include:

• Dendrodoris Ehrenberg, 1831
• Doriopsilla Bergh, 1880

References

• • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979

Notes and References

1. Valdés. Angel. 2003. Preliminary molecular phylogeny of the radula-less Dorids (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia), based on 16S MTDNA sequence data. Journal of Molluscan Studies. Oxford Journals. 69. 1. 75–80. 10.1093/mollus/69.1.75. 1464-3766. free.