Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Opisthobranchia > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Euctenidiacea > Infraorder Doridacea > 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

Aporodoris Ihering, 1886
Atagema Gray, 1850
Baptodoris Bergh, 1884
Carminodoris Bergh, 1889
Discodoris Bergh, 1877
Geitodoris Bergh, 1891
Jorunna Bergh, 1876
Montereina MacFarland, 1905
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 Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967
Thordisa Bergh, 1877
Thorybopus Bouchet, 1977

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.
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 discodorid sea slugs (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia, Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, vol. 61, suppl. I, 1-403, 382 figs.

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Citation

Bouchet, P. (2014). Discodorididae Bergh, 1891. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1761