Dendronotoidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = {{multiple image|perrow = 2/2/2/2|total_width=300 | border = infobox | image1 = Dendronotus frondosus 259892881 (cropped).jpg | image2 = Phylliroe bucephala 592203284.jpg | image3 = Hancockia californica 206995746.jpg | image4 = Doto greenamyeri 1.jpg | image5 = Scyllaea fulva.jpg | image6 = Melibe mirifica.jpg }} | image_caption = From left to right in each row, from top to bottom: ''Dendronotus frondosus'' (Dendronotidae), ''Phylliroe bucephala'' (Phylliroidae), ''Hancockia californica'' (Hancockiidae), ''Doto greenamyeri'' (Dotidae), ''Scyllaea fulva'' (Scyllaeidae), ''Melibe viridis'' (Tethydidae) |display_parents = 2 |parent_authority = Odhner, 1934 |taxon = Dendronotoidea |authority = Allman, 1845 |synonyms = * Dendronotida * Dendronotina }}

'''Dendronotoidea''' is a superfamily of nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs or sea slugs, and the only member of the suborder '''Dendronotacea'''.<ref name=Korshunova_et_al2025/>

==Families== The following families are recognised in the superfamily Dendronotoidea:<ref name=KorshunovaMartynov2020/><ref name=Korshunova_et_al2025/> * Family Bornellidae Bergh, 1874 * Family Dendronotidae Allman, 1845 * Family Dotidae Gray, 1853 * Family Hancockiidae MacFarland, 1923 * Family Lomanotidae Bergh, 1890 * Family Phylliroidae Menke, 1830 * Family Scyllaeidae Alder & Hancock, 1855 * Family Tethydidae Rafinesque, 1815

==References== <references>

<ref name=Korshunova_et_al2025>{{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=KorshunovaMartynov2020>{{Cite journal |last=Korshunova |first=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 |url=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0242103 |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}}</ref>

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== Further reading == * {{Cite journal |last=Karmeinski |first=Dario |last2=Meusemann |first2=Karen |last3=Goodheart |first3=Jessica A. |last4=Schroedl |first4=Michael |last5=Martynov |first5=Alexander |last6=Korshunova |first6=Tatiana |last7=Wägele |first7=Heike |last8=Donath |first8=Alexander |date=2021-12-28 |title=Transcriptomics provides a robust framework for the relationships of the major clades of cladobranch sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia), but fails to resolve the position of the enigmatic genus Embletonia |url=https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01944-0 |journal=BMC Ecology and Evolution |language=en |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=226 |doi=10.1186/s12862-021-01944-0 |doi-access=free |issn=2730-7182 |pmc=8895541 |pmid=34963462}}

* {{Cite journal |last=Goodheart |first=Jessica A. |last2=Bazinet |first2=Adam L. |last3=Valdés |first3=Ángel |last4=Collins |first4=Allen G. |last5=Cummings |first5=Michael P. |date=2017-10-26 |title=Prey preference follows phylogeny: evolutionary dietary patterns within the marine gastropod group Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia) |url=https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1066-0 |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |language=en |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=221 |doi=10.1186/s12862-017-1066-0 |doi-access=free |issn=1471-2148 |pmc=5659023 |pmid=29073890}}

* [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49466106 Odhner N. H. (1934). The Nudibranchiata of British Antarctic Expedition. British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910. Natural history reports. Zoology. 7: 229-310]

Category:Nudibranchs Category:Gastropod superfamilies