Aeolidiidae

Aeolidiidae
Aeolidia papillosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
Family: Aeolidiidae
Orbigny, 1834
Genera

See Genera

Synonyms
  • Aeolididae[1]
  • Eolidininae (Invalid: Placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 780)[2]
  • Pleurolidiidae[2]
  • Protaeolidiellidae[2]
  • Spurillidae[2]

Aeolidiidae is a family of aeolid nudibranchs.[2] Most, or perhaps all, members of this family feed on sea anemones and have a distinctive single row of comb-shaped serrated radular teeth.[3]

Genera

According to Korshunova and colleagues (2025), the following genera are recognised in the family Aeolidiidae:[4]

  • Aeolidia Cuvier, 1798
  • Aeolidiella Bergh, 1867
  • Aeolidiopsis Pruvot-Fol, 1956
  • Anteaeolidiella M. C. Miller, 2001
  • Baeolidia Bergh, 1888
  • Berghia Trinchese, 1877
  • Bulbaeolidia Carmona, Pola, Gosliner & Cervera, 2013[5]
  • Cerberilla Bergh, 1873
  • Limenandra Haefelfinger and Stamm, 1958
  • Spurilla Bergh, 1864
  • Zeusia Korshunova et al., 2017

References

  1. ^ "Aeolididae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e Bouchet, P. (2014). Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2014-10-24
  3. ^ Domínguez, M.; Troncoso, J. S.; García, F. J. (2008). "The family Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827 (Gastropoda Opisthobranchia) from Brazil, with a description of a new species belonging to the genus Berghia Trinchese, 1877". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 153 (2): 349–368. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00390.x.
  4. ^ Korshunova, Tatiana; Fletcher, Karin; Martynov, Alexander (2025-08-01). "The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204 (4). doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf057. ISSN 0024-4082.
  5. ^ Carmona L., Pola M., Gosliner T.M. & Cervera J.L. 2013. A tale that morphology fails to tell: A molecular phylogeny of Aeolidiidae (Aeolidida, Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). PLoS ONE 8(5): e63000. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063000
  • Gosliner, T.M. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa ISBN 0-930118-13-8
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