Aeolidiidae is a family of aeolid nudibranchs.Bouchet, P. (2014). Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2014-10-24 Most, or perhaps all, members of this family feed on sea anemones and have a distinctive single row of comb-shaped serrated radular teeth.
Excluding Pleurolidia juliae, Aeolidiidae is monophyletic. Within Aeolidioidea, Aeolidiidae is one of the largest families, whose members differ from the rest of aeolids by their pectinate radular teeth and their diet –most of them feed on anemones.
Genera According to Korshunova and colleagues (2025), the following genera are recognised in the family Aeolidiidae: Aeolidia Cuvier, 1798 Aeolidiella Bergh, 1867 Aeolidiopsis Pruvot-Fol, 1956 Anteaeolidiella M. C. Miller, 2001 Baeolidia Bergh, 1888 Berghia Trinchese, 1877 Bulbaeolidia Carmona, Pola, Gosliner & Cervera, 2013Carmona 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. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063000 Cerberilla Bergh, 1873 Limenandra Haefelfinger and Stamm, 1958 Novaeolidiella Carmona, Martín-Hervás, Pola, Gosliner & Cervera, 2026 Spurilla Bergh, 1864 Zeusia Korshunova et al., 2017
References
Gosliner, T.M. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa
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