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
Familia: Dotidae
Genera (4): Caecinella – Doto – Kabeiro – Miesea
Name
Dotidae Gray, 1853
Synonyms
Dotoidae (incorrect subsequent spelling)
Iduliidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923
References
Shipman, C. & Gosliner, T.M. 2015. Molecular and morphological systematics of Doto Oken, 1851 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia), with descriptions of five new species and a new genus. Zootaxa 3973(1): 57–101. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.1.2 Preview (PDF).Reference page.
Links
Dotidae in the World Register of Marine Species
Dotidae are a taxonomic family of small sea slugs, nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs formerly assigned to the order Opisthobranchia, but now considered to belong to the clade Dexiarchia. This family is unassigned to a superfamily.
This family has also been spelled in the past as "Dotonidae" and "Dotoidae". The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) decided in 1964 that neither spelling was correct and adopted Dotidae Gray, 1853 as the accepted name for this family.[1][2]
Distribution
This family occurs worldwide in cold and warm seas.[3]
Genera
Genera within the family Dotidae include:[4]
Caecinella Bergh, 1870
Doto Oken, 1815
Kabeiro Shipman & Gosliner, 2015
Miesea Marcus, 1961
Synonyms include:
Gellina Gray, 1850
References
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1964) "Doto Oken, 1815 (Gastropoda): validated under the plenary powers". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21(2): 97–100.
Rudman B. (9 March 2004) Dotidae or Dotoidae? Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. accessed 7 November 2009.
Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
Bouchet, P. (2015). Dotidae. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-06-24
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