Arminoidea
Superfamily of gastropods
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Arminoidea is a superfamily of small sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Nudibranchia.[1]
| Arminoidea | |
|---|---|
| Armina californica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Clade: | Euarminida |
| Superfamily: | Arminoidea Rafinesque, 1814 |
| Families | |
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Arminoidea is the only superfamily in the clade Euarminida.
Families
A study, published in 2000,[2] has demonstrated that Arminoidea is paraphyletic.
The taxonomy of the Arminoidea in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005)[3] contains two families as follows:
- Family Arminidae
- Family Doridomorphidae