Heterodoris

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Heterodoris robusta (cropped).png | image_caption = From left to right: dorsal, ventral and lateral views of a live specimen of ''Heterodoris robusta'' | display_parents = 3 | parent_authority = A. E. Verrill & Emerton, 1882 | taxon = Heterodoris | authority = A. E. Verrill & Emerton, 1882 | type_species = ''Heterodoris robusta'' | type_species_authority = A. E. Verrill & Emerton, 1882 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision_ref = <ref name=KorshunovaMartynov2020/><ref name=WoRMS>{{Cite WoRMS|title=''Heterodoris'' A. E. Verrill & Emerton, 1882|id=138066|access-date=2026-05-29|db=MolluscaBase}}</ref> | subdivision = {{Linked species list|abbreviated=yes | Heterodoris antipodes | Willan, 1981 | Heterodoris robusta | A. E. Verrill & Emerton, 1882 }} | synonyms = }}

'''''Heterodoris''''' is a genus of nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs or sea slugs. It is the only member of the family '''Heterodorididae''' in the superfamily Doridoxoidea.<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>

A 2020 molecular study recovered ''Heterodoris'' grouping with the genera ''Doridomorpha'' and ''Doridoxa'', with this group closely related to the family Arminidae.<ref name=KorshunovaMartynov2020/>

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Category:Nudibranchs Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa described in 1882