Heroidae

Heroidae is a family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Nudipleura. There are no subfamilies in Heroidae.[1]

Heroidae
Hero formosa depicted in A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca

Part 8 Charles Eliot.

Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia

clade Cladobranchia
Family:
Heroidae

Genera

Hero

The only genus in the family is Hero and it has two known species, Hero blanchardi and Hero formosa.[2]

References

Sea Slug Forum species list

  1. Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  2. http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138065 accessed 11 March 2011
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