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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Ringipleura
Superordo: Nudipleura
Ordo: Nudibranchia
Subordo: Cladobranchia
Superfamilia: Dendronotoidea

Familia: Scyllaeidae
Genera (3): CrosslandiaNotobryon – Scyllaea
Name

Scyllaeidae Alder & Hancock, 1855
References

Pola, M.; Camacho-García, Y.E.; Gosliner, T.M. 2012: Molecular data illuminate cryptic nudibranch species: the evolution of the Scyllaeidae (Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) with a revision of Notobryon. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 165(2): 311–336. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00816.x

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Scyllaeidae in the World Register of Marine Species

Scyllaeidae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Dendronotoidea.[1]

This family is within the suborder Cladobranchia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera

Genera in the family Scyllaeidae include:

Crosslandia Eliot, 1902
Notobryon Odhner, 1936
Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758

Genera brought into synonymy

Nerea Lesson, 1831: synonym of Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758
Zoopterygius Osbeck, 1757: synonym of Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758 (non-binominal)

References

http://www.catalogueoflife.org/ Retrieved 16 September 2009
http://www.seaslugforum.net/ Retrieved 16 September 2009
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
Pola M., Camacho-Garcia Y.E. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Molecular data illuminate cryptic nudibranch species: the evolution of the Scyllaeidae (Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) with a revision of Notobryon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 311–336

Bouchet, P. (2012). Scyllaeidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23115 on 2012-06-07

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