Nudipleura Explained

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

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005),^[1] 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)^[2] have classified Nudipleura within Heterobranchia as a separate clade as follows:

External links

• Sea Slug Forum

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. . Rocroi, J.-P. . amp . 2005 . Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families . Malacologia . 47 . 1–2 .
2. 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 . . 10 . 323 . 10.1186/1471-2148-10-323 . 20973994 . 3087543 . free .