Aglajidae is a family of often colorful, medium-sized, sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks. These are not nudibranchs; instead they are headshield slugs, in the superfamily Philinoidea.Oskars T.R., Bouchet P. & Malaquias M.A. (2015). A new phylogeny of the Cephalaspidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) based on expanded taxon sampling and gene markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 89: 130-150. Note on the authority and dates Family names such as this one, Aglajidae Pilsbry, 1895 (1847), that have two dates (the second one in parentheses) are those names which are ruled by Article 40(2) of the ICZN Code. "If ... a family-group name was replaced before 1961 because of the synonymy of the type genus, the replacement name is to be maintained if it is in prevailing usage. A name maintained by virtue of this Article retains its own author [and date, the first date cited] but takes the priority of the replaced name [the date cited in parentheses, here alluding to Doridiinae Gray, 1847]
Genera Genera and species within the family Aglajidae include:Sea Slug Forum Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
Aglaja Renier, 1807 Aglaona Chaban, Ekimova, Schepetov & Chernyshev, 2022 Biuve Zamora-Silva & Malaquias, 2017 Camachoaglaja Zamora-Silva & Malaquias, 2017 Chelidonura A. Adams, 1850 Mannesia Zamora-Silva & Malaquias, 2017 Mariaglaja Zamora-Silva & Malaquias, 2017 Melanochlamys Cheeseman, 1881 Nakamigawaia Kuroda & Habe, 1961 Navanax Pilsbry, 1895 Niparaya Zamora-Silva & Malaquias, 2017 Odontoglaja Rudman, 1978 Philinissima Philinopsis Pease, 1860 Spinoaglaja Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 2007 Spinophallus Zamora-Silva & Malaquias, 2017 Tubulophilinopsis Zamora-Silva & Malaquias, 2017
Genera currently in synonymy include:
Acera : synonym of Philinopsis Aglaia : synonym of Aglaja Doridium : synonym of Aglaja Eidothea : synonym of Philinopsis Hirundella : synonym of Chelidonura Migaya : synonym of Nakamigawaia Navarchus : synonym of Navanax Posterobranchaea : synonym of Navanax Strategus : synonym of Navanax
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