Cuthonidae is a family of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Fionoidea.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Cuthonidae Odhner, 1934 |
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Taxonomic history
editThis family was reinstated as a result of a molecular phylogenetics study.[2]
Genera
editGenera within the family Cuthonidae include:
- Bohuslania Korshunova, Lundin, Malmberg, Picton & Martynov, 2018
- Cuthona Alder & Hancock, 1855
References
edit- ^ Picton, B.; Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Cuthonidae Odhner, 1934. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2017-11-02.
- ^ Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Picton, B. (2017). Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea. Zootaxa. 4324(1): 1.
External links
edit- Tatiana Korshunova, Kennet Lundin, Klas Malmberg, Bernard Picton, Alexander Martynov: First true brackish-water nudibranch mollusc provides new insights for phylogeny and biogeography and reveals paedomorphosis-driven evolution; PLOS|ONE, March 14, 2018
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