Embletoniidae
| Embletoniidae | |
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| Embletonia pulchra illustrated in A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia |
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Embletoniidae Pruvot-Fol, 1954 |
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Embletoniidae is a family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs, in the clade Nudipleura. There are no subfamilies in the Embletoniidae.
This family was placed in Dendronotida by Miller & Willan (1991), otherwise it is traditionally placed close to Tergipedidae.
The family and the genus Embletonia were named after Dennis Embleton, a British naturalist (1810-1900).
There is one genus:
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