Bornellidae
Encyclopedia
Bornellidae is a family
of sea snail
s or sea slugs, marine
gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tritonioidea
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This family is within the clade Cladobranchia
(according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005
).
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s or sea slugs, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tritonioidea
Tritonioidea
Tritonioidea is a superfamily of small sea slugs, nudibranchs. These are marine gastropod mollusks.Tritonioidea is the only superfamily in the clade Dendronotida....
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This family is within the clade Cladobranchia
Cladobranchia
The Cladobranchia are a taxonomic clade of nudibranch sea snails or slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Dexiarchia.-Taxonomy:**Family Charcotiidae**Family Dironidae**Family Dotidae**Family Embletoniidae**Family Goniaeolididae**Family Heroidae...
(according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005
Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...
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Taxonomy
The family Bornellidae consists of the following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...
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Genera
- BornellaBornellaBornella is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolidiform nudibranchs in the family Bornellidae. This is a monophyletic genus.There has not been much research on this genus. Their biology is mostly unknown, except that they seem to feed exclusively on hydroids.-Distribution:These nudibranchs...
Gray, 1850 (with at least ten species) - Pseudobornella Baba, 1932 (monotypic : P. orientalis)