The Dexiarchia are a suborder of sea slugs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the order Nudibranchia.[1] This classification is based on the study by Schrödl et al., published in 2001, who recognized within this clade two clades Pseudoeuctenidiacea and Cladobranchia.[2]
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| Close-up of anterior end of Janolus fuscus, family Proctonotidae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Clade: | Dexiarchia Schrödl et al., 2001 |
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Taxonomy
editClade Pseudoeuctenidiacea ( = Doridoxida)
edit- Superfamily Doridoxoidea
- Family Doridoxidae
Clade Cladobranchia ( = Cladohepatica)
editContains the subclades Euarminida, Dendronotida and Aeolidida
- Not assigned to a superfamily (Metarminoidea)
- Family Charcotiidae
- Family Dironidae
- Family Embletoniidae
- Family Goniaeolididae
- Family Heroidae
- Family Madrellidae
- Family Pinufiidae
- Family Proctonotidae
Subclade Euarminida
edit- Superfamily Arminoidea
- Family Arminidae
- Family Doridomorphidae
Subclade Dendronotida
edit- Superfamily Tritonioidea
- Family Tritoniidae
- Family Aranucidae
- Family Bornellidae
- Family Dendronotidae
- Family Dotidae
- Family Hancockiidae
- Family Lomanotidae
- Family Phylliroidae
- Family Scyllaeidae
- Family Tethydidae
Subclade Aeolidida
edit- Superfamily Flabellinoidea ( = Pleuroprocta)
- Family Flabellinidae
- Family Notaeolidiidae
- Superfamily Fionoidea
- Family Fionidae
- Family Calmidae
- Family Eubranchidae
- Family Pseudovermidae
- Family Tergipedidae
- Superfamily Aeolidioidea
- Family Aeolidiidae
- Family Facelinidae
- Family Glaucidae
- Family Piseinotecidae
References
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- ^ Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
- ^ M. Schrödl; H. Wägele; R.C. Willan (2001). "Taxonomic rediscrioption of the Doridoxidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia), an enigmatic family of deep water nudibranchs with discussion of the basal nudibranch phylogeny". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 240: 83–97. doi:10.1078/0044-5231-00008.
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