Arminidae

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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: Arminoidea

Familia: Arminidae
Genera (7): Armina – Atthila – Dermatobranchus – Heterodoris – Histiomena – Pleurophyllidiella – Pleurophyllidiopsis
Name

Arminidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923 (1841)
Synonyms

Atthilidae Bergh, 1899
Dermatobranchidae P. Fischer, 1883
Diphyllidiidae d'Orbigny, 1841
Heterodorididae Verrill & Emerton, 1882
Pleuroleuridae Bergh, 1874
Pleurophyllidiidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

References

Gosliner, T.M. & Fahey, S.J. 2011. Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: a phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 245–356. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00649.x Open access. Reference page.
Kolb, A.; Wägele, H. 1998: On the phylogeny of the Arminidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia) with considerations of biogeography. Journal of zoological systematics and evolutionary research, 36(1-2): 53–64. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.1998.tb00777.x
Willan, R.C. 1981: A new abyssal arminacean nudibranch from New Zealand. New Zealand journal of zoology 8(3): 325-330. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1981.10430612 Open access. Reference page.

Links

Arminidae in the World Register of Marine Species

Arminidae is a family of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arminoidea.
Taxonomy

The family Arminidae is classified within the clade Cladobranchia, itself belonging to the clade Nudibranchia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

This family has been renamed several times. It was originally named by d'Orbigny in 1841 as Diphyllidiidae, by H. Adams and A. Adams as Pleurophyllidiidae in 1854, by Bergh as Pleuroleuridae in 1874, by Verrill and Emerton as Heterodorididae in 1882, by P. Fischer as Dermatobranchidae in 1883 and as Atthilidae by Bergh in 1899. The name Arminidae is now in prevailing usage.
Genera

The type genus is Armina Rafinesque, 1814

Genera in the family Arminidae include:

Armina Rafinesque, 1814
Dermatobranchus van Hasselt, 1824
Histiomena Mörch, 1860
Heterodoris Verrill & Emerton, 1882 . This is a genus, only known from a few specimens
Heterodoris antipodes Willan, 1981 (Tasman Sea)
Heterodoris ingolfiana (south of Iceland)
Heterodoris robusta Verrill & Emerton, 1882 (North Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean)
Pleurophyllidiella Eliot, 1903
Pleurophyllidiopsis Tchang-Si, 1934
Sancara

Species brought into synonymy

Camarga : synonym of Histiomena Mörch, 1860
Diphyllidia : synonym of Armina Rafinesque, 1814
Linguella Férussac, 1822: synonym of Armina Rafinesque, 1814
Pleuroleura : synonym of Dermatobranchus van Hasselt, 1824
Pleurophyllidia : synonym of Armina Rafinesque, 1814

References

Gofas, S. (2011). Arminidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2087 on 2011-04-30

Gary R. McDonald, University of California Santa Cruz; 29 July 2006, "Nudibranch Systematic Index", University of California Santa Cruz
Kolb, A. & H. Wägele (1998). "On the phylogeny of the Arminidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia) with considerations of biogeography". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 36: 53–64. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.1998.tb00777.x.
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp