Tritoniidae

Tritoniidae
File:Tritonia festiva.jpg
A live individual of Tritonia festiva in situ
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superfamily:	Tritonioidea
Family:	Tritoniidae Menke, 1828
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Duvauceliidae

The Tritoniidae are a taxonomic family of dendronotid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs. These nudibranchs occur worldwide in warm and temperate seas. The genera in the family Tritoniidae include:

• Marianina Pruvot-Fol, 1931
• Marionia Vayssiere, 1877
• Marioniopsis Odhner, 1934
• Paratritonia Baba, 1949
• Tochuina Odhner, 1963
• Tritonia Cuvier, 1798
• Tritonidoxa Bergh, 1907
• Tritoniella Eliot, 1907
• Tritoniopsilla Pruvot-Fol, 1933
• Tritoniopsis Eliot, 1905

Genera brought into synonymy

• Candiella Gray, 1850: synonym of Tritonia Cuvier, 1797
• Duvaucelia Risso, 1826: synonym of Tritonia Cuvier, 1797
• Euphurus Rafinesque, 1815: synonym of Tritonia Cuvier, 1797
• Mariana Pruvot-Fol, 1930: synonym of Marianina Pruvot-Fol, 1931
• Microlophus Mabille & Rochebrune, 1889: synonym of Tritonia Cuvier, 1797
• Myrella Odhner, 1963: synonym of Tritonia Cuvier, 1797

References

• Thompson, T. E., & Brown, G.H., 1984. Biology of opisthobranch Molluscs. Vol. 2. Ray Society; London. 1-229, p.10
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• AnimalDiversity
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp