Aeolidioidea

Aeolidioidea is a superfamily of sea slugs, the aeolid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the suborder Cladobranchia.^[1]

Aeolidioidea
Spanish shawl, Flabellinopsis iodinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Cladobranchia
Superfamily:	Aeolidioidea J.E. Gray, 1827
Families
See text.

Taxonomy

As of 2019, the superfamily Aeolidioidea consisted of the following families:^[1]

• Aeolidiidae Gray, 1827
• Babakinidae Roller, 1973
• Facelinidae Bergh, 1889
• Flabellinopsidae Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017
• Glaucidae Gray, 1827
• Myrrhinidae Bergh, 1905
• Notaeolidiidae Eliot, 1910
• Piseinotecidae Edmunds, 1970
• Pleurolidiidae Burn, 1966

Synonyms of families within this superfamily include:

• Caloriidae (accepted as Facelinidae)
• Cratenidae (accepted as Facelinidae)
• Favorinidae (accepted as Facelinidae)
• Phidianidae (accepted as Facelinidae)
• Phyllodesmiidae (accepted as Myrrhinidae)
• Protaeolidiellidae (accepted as Pleurolidiidae)
• Spurillidae (accepted as Aeolidiidae)

Gosliner et al. (2007) elevated the subfamily Babakininae, which was within Facelinidae, to the family level, as Babakinidae.^[2] A study of facelinid relationships in 2019 removed several facelinid genera to the family Myrrhinidae.^[3]