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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: Tritonioidea
Familia (1): Tritoniidae
Name

Tritonioidea Lamarck, 1809
Synonyms

Dendronotoidea

References

Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. 2005: Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia, 47: 1–397.

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Tritonioidea in the World Register of Marine Species
Tritonioidea is a superfamily of sea slugs, nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the Suborder Cladobranchia.[1]
Taxonomic history

Tritonioidea was the only superfamily in the clade Dendronotida. The taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi for the clade Dendronotida was largely based on the classification established by Boss in 1982,[2] who in turn based his conclusions on the study by Odhner in 1968.[3]

The study of Wägele and Willan, published in 2000,[4] concluded that Dendronotida is monophyletic, although this monophyly had been questioned, based on the wide variety in sperm morphology, in a paper by Healy & Willan in 1991.[5]
Taxonomy

Taxonomy in the Superfamily Tritonoidea is as follows:[1]

Superfamily Tritonioidea

Family Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809

Families currently accepted as synonyms:

Family Aranucidae Odhner, 1936 accepted as Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809
Family Duvauceliidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923 accepted as Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809

References
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MolluscaBase (2018). Tritonioidea Lamarck, 1809. Accessed on 2021-01-09.
K.J. Boss : Mollusca (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms vol.1. New York: McGraw Hill. pp. 945–1166.
N.H. Odhner (1968). "On the taxonomic position of the "Rhodopacea" (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Arkiv för Zoologi. 20 (13): 253–259.
H. Wägele & R.C. Willan (2000). "Phylogeny of the Nudibranchia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 130 (1): 83–181. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb02196.x.
J.M. Healy & R.C. Willan (1991). "Nudibranch spermatozoa : comparative ultrastructure and systematic importance". The Veliger. 34 (2): 134–165.

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