Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Cladobranchia > Superfamily Aeolidioidea

Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aeolidia Cuvier, 1798
Aeolidiella Bergh, 1867
Anteaeolidiella M. C. Miller, 2001
Baeolidia Bergh, 1888
Berghia Trinchese, 1877
Cerberilla Bergh, 1873
Limenandra Haefelfinger & Stamm, 1958
Spurilla Bergh, 1864
Zeusia Korshunova, Zimina & Martynov, 2017

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: vlokslakken sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

Japanese: オオミノウミウシ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: snigelkottar

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
additional source	Carmona, L., Pola, M., Gosliner, T.M. & Cervera, J.L. (2013). A tale that morphology fails to tell: A molecular phylogeny of Aeolidiidae (Aeolidida, Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). PLoS ONE. 8(5): e63000.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:192