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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: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
SuperOrdo: Sacoglossa
Superfamilia: Plakobranchoidea

Familia: Costasiellidae
Genera (2): CostasiellaPanderevela
Name

Costasiellidae Clark, 1984
References

Swennen, C. 2007: Costasiella coronata, new species, and a revised diagnosis for the family Costasiellidae (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa). Raffles bulletin of zoology, 55(2): 355–362. PDF

Links

Costasiellidae in the World Register of Marine Species accessed on 2020-04-01

Costasiellidae is a taxonomic family of small to minute sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks belonging to the superfamily Plakobranchoidea.[1]

These sea slugs resembling nudibranchs, but are not closely related to them.

This family has no subfamilies.
Genera

The following genera belong to the family Costasiellidae:

Costasiella Pruvot-Fol, 1951
Panderevela Moro & Ortea, 2015

References

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Costasiellidae K. B. Clarke, 1984. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23012 on 2015-01-17

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