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Family of gastropods

Aglajidae
Chelidonura varians, head end towards the lower left
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Cephalaspidea
Family: Aglajidae
Pilsbry, 1895 (1847)
Genera

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Synonyms
  • Chelidonuridae Habe, 1961
  • Doridiidae Gray, 1847 (Placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 1079)
  • Sinistrobranchidae d´Orbigny, 1841 (Name not available: not based on a name (ICZN, Art. 11.7.1.1.))

Aglajidae is a family of often colorful, medium-sized, sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks. These are not nudibranchs; instead they are headshield slugs, in the clade Cephalaspidea.

Note on the authority and dates

Family names such as this one, Aglajidae Pilsbry, 1895 (1847), that have two dates (the second one in parentheses) are those names which are ruled by Article 40(2) of the ICZN Code. "If ... a family-group name was replaced before 1961 because of the synonymy of the type genus, the replacement name is to be maintained if it is in prevailing usage. A name maintained by virtue of this Article retains its own author but takes the priority of the replaced name

Genera

Genera and species within the family Aglajidae include:

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References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Aglajidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22981 on 2012-06-16
  2. Sea Slug Forum Archived 2009-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
Taxon identifiers
Aglajidae


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