Scyllaeidae Alder & Hancock 1855

Scyllaeidae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Dendronotoidea.^[1]

This family is within the suborder Cladobranchia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Genera

Genera in the family Scyllaeidae include:

• Crosslandia Eliot, 1902
• Notobryon Odhner, 1936
• Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758

Genera brought into synonymy

• Nerea Lesson, 1831: synonym of Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758
• Zoopterygius Osbeck, 1757: synonym of Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758 (non-binomial)

References

• http://www.catalogueoflife.org/ Retrieved 16 September 2009
• http://www.seaslugforum.net/ Retrieved 16 September 2009
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
• Pola M., Camacho-Garcia Y.E. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Molecular data illuminate cryptic nudibranch species: the evolution of the Scyllaeidae (Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) with a revision of Notobryon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 311–336