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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: Bornellidae
Genera (2): Bornella – Bornellopsis
Name

Bornellidae Bergh, 1874
References
Selected references

Pola, M.; Rudman, W.B.; Gosliner, T.M. 2009: Systematics and preliminary phylogeny of Bornellidae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) based on morphological characters with description of four new species. Zootaxa 1975: 1–57. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.

Links

Bouchet, P. (2010) in: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. accessed through
Bornellidae in the World Register of Marine Species on 2012-09-17

Bornellidae is a family of sea snails or sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tritonioidea.

This family is within the clade Cladobranchia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Taxonomy
The family Bornellidae consists of the following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Genera

Bornella Gray, 1850 (with at least ten species)
Bornellopsis O'Donoghue, 1929
Pseudobornella Baba, 1932 (monotypic : P. orientalis)

References

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