| Dendrodorididae | |
|---|---|
| Doriopsilla albopunctata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): |
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Phyllidioidea |
| Family: |
Dendrodorididae O'Donoghue, 1924 |
| Genera | |
|
See text. |
|
| Synonyms | |
|
Doridopsidae Alder & Hancock, 1864 |
|
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea
See text.
Doridopsidae Alder & Hancock, 1864
Dendrodorididae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the Superfamily Phyllidioidea.
A maximum-parsimony analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the 16S mtDNA gene, performed in 2003, has shown that the family Dendrodoridae is paraphyletic. Genera in the family Dendrodorididae presently include: