Aeolidiidae

Aeolidiidae
Aeolidia papillosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Aeolidacea
Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
Family: Aeolidiidae
Orbigny, 1834
Genera

See Genera

Synonyms
  • Aeolididae[1]
  • Eolidininae (Invalid: Placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 780)[2]
  • Pleurolidiidae[2]
  • Protaeolidiellidae[2]
  • Spurillidae[2]

Aeolidiidae is a family of aeolid nudibranchs.[2] Most, or perhaps all, members of this family feed on sea anemones and have a distinctive single row of comb-shaped serrated radular teeth.[3]

Excluding Pleurolidia juliae, Aeolidiidae is monophyletic. Within Aeolidioidea, Aeolidiidae is one of the largest families, whose members differ from the rest of aeolids by their pectinate radular teeth and their diet –most of them feed on anemones. [4]

Genera

According to Korshunova and colleagues (2025), the following genera are recognised in the family Aeolidiidae:[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Aeolididae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Bouchet, P. (2014). Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2014-10-24
  3. ↑ Domínguez, M.; Troncoso, J. S.; García, F. J. (2008). "The family Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827 (Gastropoda Opisthobranchia) from Brazil, with a description of a new species belonging to the genus Berghia Trinchese, 1877". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 153 (2): 349–368. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00390.x.
  4. ↑ Carmona, L.; Pola, M.; Gosliner, T. M.; Cervera, J. L. (2013). "A tale that morphology fails to tell: A molecular phylogeny of Aeolidiidae (Aeolidida, Nudibranchia, Gastropoda)". PLoS ONE. 8 (5). Retrieved 4 August 2026.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is under a CC BY 4.0 license.
  5. ↑ Korshunova, Tatiana; Fletcher, Karin; Martynov, Alexander (2025-08-01). "The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204 (4). doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf057. ISSN 0024-4082.
  6. ↑ Carmona L., Pola M., Gosliner T.M. & Cervera J.L. 2013. A tale that morphology fails to tell: A molecular phylogeny of Aeolidiidae (Aeolidida, Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). PLoS ONE 8(5): e63000. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063000
  • Gosliner, T.M. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa ISBN 0-930118-13-8
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