Arminidae

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| image = {{multiple image|perrow = 2/2|total_width=300 | border = infobox | image1 = Armina californica 657615942.jpg | image2 = Armina Nick Hobgood.jpg | image3 = Dermatobranchus ornatus Dahab 2.jpg | image4 = Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus (24326566792).jpg }} | image_caption = From left to right in each row, from top to bottom: ''Armina californica'', ''Armina occulta'', ''Dermatobranchus ornatus'', and ''Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus'' | parent_authority = Iredale & O’Donoghue, 1923 | display_parents = | taxon = Arminidae | authority = Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923 | type_genus = ''Armina'' | type_genus_authority = Rafinesque, 1814 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text | synonyms = {{Taxon list | Dermatobranchidae | P. Fischer, 1883 | Diphyllidiidae | A. d'Orbigny, 1841 | Pleuroleuridae | Bergh, 1874 | Pleurophyllidiidae | H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 }} | synonyms_ref = <ref name=WoRMS>{{Cite WoRMS|title=Arminidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923 (1841)|id=2087|access-date=2026-05-31|db=MolluscaBase}}</ref> }}

'''Arminidae''' is a family of nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs or sea slugs, and the only member of the superfamily '''Arminoidea'''.<ref name=KorshunovaMartynov2020>{{Cite journal |last1=Korshunova |first1=Tatiana |last2=Martynov |first2=Alexander |date=2020-11-20 |title=Consolidated data on the phylogeny and evolution of the family Tritoniidae (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) contribute to genera reassessment and clarify the taxonomic status of the neuroscience models Tritonia and Tochuina |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=15 |issue=11 |article-number=e0242103 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0242103 |doi-access=free |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=7679014 |pmid=33216784 |bibcode=2020PLoSO..1542103K }}</ref><ref name=Korshunova&2025>{{Cite journal |last=Korshunova |first=Tatiana |last2=Fletcher |first2=Karin |last3=Martynov |first3=Alexander |date=2025-08-01 |title=The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case |url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf057/8237533 |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |language=en |volume=204 |issue=4 |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf057 |issn=0024-4082|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=WoRMS/>

== Classification == The following genera are recognised in the family Arminidae:<ref name=WoRMS/> {{Linked genus list | Armina | Rafinesque, 1814 | Atthila | Bergh, 1899 | Dermatobranchus | van Hasselt, 1824 | Histiomena | Mörch, 1859 | Pleurophyllidiella | Eliot, 1903 | Pleurophyllidiopsis | S. Tchang, 1934 }}

A 2020 molecular analysis by Korshunova and Martynov recovered the following phylogenetic tree, where ''Doridomorpha'', ''Doridoxa'', and ''Heterodoris'' form a clade sister to the family Arminidae:<ref name=KorshunovaMartynov2020/>

{{clade| style=font-size:85%;line-height:85% |1={{clade |1=Dendronotoidea |2={{clade |1=Tritoniidae |2={{clade |label1='''Arminidae''' |1={{clade |1=''Armina'' |2=''Dermatobranchus'' }} |2={{clade |label1=Doridoxidae |1=''Doridoxa'' |2={{clade |label1=Doridomorphidae |1=''Doridomorpha'' |label2=Heterodorididae |2=''Heterodoris'' }} }} }} }} }} }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

== Further reading == {{Commons category|Arminidae}} * {{cite journal |author1=Wägele H. |author2=Willan R. C. |name-list-style=amp | title = Phylogeny of the Nudibranchia | journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |date=September 2000 | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 83–181 | doi = 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb02196.x| doi-access = free }} *[http://repositories.cdlib.org/ims/Nudibranch_Systematic_Index Gary R. McDonald, University of California Santa Cruz; 29 July 2006, "Nudibranch Systematic Index", University of California Santa Cruz] *{{cite journal |author1=Kolb, A. |author2=H. Wägele |name-list-style=amp | title=On the phylogeny of the Arminidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia) with considerations of biogeography| journal=Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research | year=1998| volume=36| pages=53–64 |doi=10.1111/j.1439-0469.1998.tb00777.x}} * Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). {{ISBN|0-915826-22-4}}. XII, 195 pp *{{cite journal | author=Willan, R.C.| title=A new abyssal arminacean nudibranch from New Zealand| journal=New Zealand Journal of Zoology| year=1981| volume=8| pages=325–330| doi=10.1080/03014223.1981.10430612| doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal |author1=Verrill, A.A. |author2=Emerton, J.H. |name-list-style=amp | title=Catalogue of marine mollusca added to the fauna of the New England region during the past 10 years| journal=Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science| year=1882| volume=5| issue=2| pages=548–549}}

Category:Arminidae Category:Taxa named by Tom Iredale Category:Taxa named by Charles Henry O'Donoghue Category:Taxa described in 1923