Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Doridina > Infraorder Doridoidei > Superfamily Doridoidea

Discodorididae Bergh, 1891

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Kentrodorididae*	Bergh, 1891	synonym
*Platydorididae*	Bergh, 1891	synonym
*Rostangidae*	Pruvot-Fol, 1951	synonym

Children

“Montereina” sensu Dayrat, 2010
Aporodoris Ihering, 1886
Atagema Gray, 1850
Baptodoris Bergh, 1884
Carminodoris Bergh, 1889
Diaulula Bergh, 1878
Discodoris Bergh, 1877
Gargamella Bergh, 1894
Geitodoris Bergh, 1891
Jorunna Bergh, 1876
Paradoris Bergh, 1884
Peltodoris Bergh, 1880
Platydoris Bergh, 1877
Rostanga Bergh, 1879
Sclerodoris Eliot, 1904
Sebadoris Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1960
Taringa Er. Marcus, 1955
Tayuva Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967
Thordisa Bergh, 1877
Thorybopus Bouchet, 1977

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ツヅレウミウシ科

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
additional source	Valdés Á. (2002). A phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of the cryptobranch dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Anthobranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 136: 535-636.
additional source	Dayrat B. (2010). A monographic revision of basal discodorid sea slugs (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia, Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Series 4, vol. 61, suppl. I, 1-403, 382 figs.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Discodorididae Bergh, 1891. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1761