Scyllaeidae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Dendronotoidea.[1]
Scyllaeidae | |
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A live individual of the iridescent nudibranch, Notobryon wardi, head end towards the left | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Clade: | Dexiarchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Superfamily: | Dendronotoidea |
Family: | Scyllaeidae Alder & Hancock, 1855 |
Type species | |
Notobryon wardi Odhner, 1936 | |
Synonyms | |
Tritonioidea |
This family is within the suborder Cladobranchia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera in the family Scyllaeidae include: