Dotidae

Dotidae

Dotidae

Family of gastropods

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.

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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

  1. [1]
    International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1964) "Doto Oken, 1815 (Gastropoda): validated under the plenary powers". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21(2): 97–100.
  2. [2]
    Rudman B. (9 March 2004) Dotidae or Dotoidae? Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. accessed 7 November 2009.
  3. [3]
    Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  4. [4]
    Bouchet, P. (2015). Dotidae. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-06-24
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