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Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809 
AphiaID: 183

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Dexiarchia (Suborder) > Dendronotida (Infraorder) > Tritonioidea (Superfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Tritonioidea
Synonymised
taxa
  Duvauceliidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923
Sources  basis of record: Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch tritonia's  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Genus Marianina Pruvot-Fol, 1931
Genus Marionia Vayssière, 1877
Genus Marioniopsis Odhner, 1934
Genus Paratritonia Baba, 1949
Genus Tochuina Odhner, 1963
Genus Tritonia Cuvier, 1797
Genus Tritonidoxa Bergh, 1907
Genus Tritoniella Eliot, 1907
Genus Tritoniopsilla Pruvot-Fol, 1933
Genus Tritoniopsis Eliot, 1905

Genus Candiella Gray, 1850 accepted as Tritonia Cuvier, 1797
Genus Duvaucelia Risso, 1826 accepted as Tritonia Cuvier, 1797
Genus Euphurus Rafinesque, 1815 accepted as Tritonia Cuvier, 1797
Genus Mariana Pruvot-Fol, 1930 accepted as Marianina Pruvot-Fol, 1931
Genus Microlophus Mabille & Rochebrune, 1889 accepted as Tritonia Cuvier, 1797
Genus Myrella Odhner, 1963 accepted as Tritonia Cuvier, 1797
Environment marine
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Authority: The familysname is stated as valid by the ICZN (Op. 812) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:183
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2009-11-16 10:35:28Z  changed  Appeltans, Ward
2010-10-16 15:09:18Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Tritoniidae Lamarck, 1809. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=183 on 2013-05-23
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