Dexiarchia Explained

The Dexiarchia are a suborder of sea slugs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the order Nudibranchia.^[1] This classification is based on the study by Schrödl et al., published in 2001, who recognized within this clade two clades Pseudoeuctenidiacea and Cladobranchia.^[2]

Taxonomy

Clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea (= Doridoxida)

Superfamily Doridoxoidea
- Family Doridoxidae

Clade Cladobranchia (= Cladohepatica)

Contains the subclades Euarminida, Dendronotida and Aeolidida

Not assigned to a superfamily (Metarminoidea)
- Family Charcotiidae
- Family Dironidae
- Family Embletoniidae
- Family Goniaeolididae
- Family Heroidae
- Family Madrellidae
- Family Pinufiidae
- Family Proctonotidae

Notes and References

Bouchet, P. . Rocroi, J.-P. . 2005 . Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families . Malacologia . 47 . 1–2 .
10.1078/0044-5231-00008 . M. Schrödl . H. Wägele . R.C. Willan . Taxonomic rediscrioption of the Doridoxidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia), an enigmatic family of deep water nudibranchs with discussion of the basal nudibranch phylogeny. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 2001. 240. 83–97.

Dexiarchia Explained

Taxonomy

Clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea (= Doridoxida)

Clade Cladobranchia (= Cladohepatica)

Subclade Euarminida

Subclade Dendronotida

Subclade Aeolidida

Notes and References