{{Short description|Suborder of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Janolus fuscus 4.jpg | image_caption = Close-up of anterior end of ''Janolus fuscus'', family Proctonotidae | taxon = Dexiarchia | authority = Schrödl ''et al.'', 2001 | subdivision_ranks = Clades | subdivision = *clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea *clade Cladobranchia }}
The '''Dexiarchia''' are a suborder of sea slugs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the order Nudibranchia.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Bouchet, P. |author2=Rocroi, J.-P. | year = 2005 | title = Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families | journal = Malacologia | volume =47 | issue = 1–2 | pages = | doi = }}</ref> This classification is based on the study by Schrödl ''et al.,'' published in 2001, who recognized within this clade two clades Pseudoeuctenidiacea and Cladobranchia.<ref name="Schrödl">{{cite journal | doi=10.1078/0044-5231-00008 |author1=M. Schrödl |author2=H. Wägele |author3=R.C. Willan | title=Taxonomic rediscrioption of the Doridoxidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia), an enigmatic family of deep water nudibranchs with discussion of the basal nudibranch phylogeny| journal=Zoologischer Anzeiger| year=2001| volume=240| pages=83–97}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== === Clade Pseudoeuctenidiacea ( = Doridoxida) === *Superfamily Doridoxoidea **Family Doridoxidae
=== Clade Cladobranchia ( = Cladohepatica) === Contains the subclades '''Euarminida''', '''Dendronotida''' and '''Aeolidida''' *Not assigned to a superfamily (Metarminoidea) **Family Charcotiidae **Family Dironidae **Family Embletoniidae **Family Goniaeolididae **Family Heroidae **Family Madrellidae **Family Pinufiidae **Family Proctonotidae
====Subclade Euarminida==== *Superfamily Arminoidea **Family Arminidae **Family Doridomorphidae
====Subclade Dendronotida==== *Superfamily Tritonioidea **Family Tritoniidae **Family Aranucidae **Family Bornellidae **Family Dendronotidae **Family Dotidae **Family Hancockiidae **Family Lomanotidae **Family Phylliroidae **Family Scyllaeidae **Family Tethydidae
====Subclade Aeolidida==== *Superfamily Flabellinoidea ( = Pleuroprocta) **Family Flabellinidae **Family Notaeolidiidae *Superfamily Fionoidea **Family Fionidae **Family Calmidae **Family Eubranchidae **Family Pseudovermidae **Family Tergipedidae *Superfamily Aeolidioidea **Family Aeolidiidae **Family Facelinidae **Family Glaucidae **Family Piseinotecidae
==References== {{Commons category|Dexiarchia}} {{Reflist}}
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Category:Nudipleura Category:Nudibranchs Category:Taxa named by Michael Schrödl
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