Actinocyclidae

Actinocyclidae is a family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Doridoidea. This family is within the clade Euctenidiacea.^[1]^[2]

Taxonomy[edit]

Genera within the family Actinocyclidae include:

Actinocyclus Ehrenberg, 1831^[3] - the type genus
- Actinocyclus papillatus (Bergh, 1878)
- Actinocyclus verrucosus Ehrenberg, 1831^[4]^[5]
Hallaxa Eliot, 1909
- Hallaxa albopunctata Gosliner & S. Johnson, 1994
- Hallaxa apefae Marcus, 1957
- Hallaxa atrotuberculata Gosliner & S. Johnson, 1994
- Hallaxa chani Gosliner & Williams, 1975
- Hallaxa cryptica Gosliner & Johnson, 1994
- Hallaxa decorata Bergh, 1905
- Hallaxa elongata Gosliner & S. Johnson, 1994
- Hallaxa fuscescens Pease, 1871
- Hallaxa gilva Miller, 1987
- Hallaxa hileenae Gosliner & Johnson, 1994
- Hallaxa iju Gosliner & Johnson, 1994
- Hallaxa indecora (Bergh, 1877)
- Hallaxa michaeli Gosliner & Johnson, 1994
- Hallaxa paulinae Gosliner & Johnson, 1994
- Hallaxa translucens Gosliner & S. Johnson, 1994

Each genus also has a synonym. Sphaerodoris is a synonym for Actinocyclus^[6] and Halla is a synonym for Hallaxa

^ MolluscaBase (2018). Actinocyclidae O'Donoghue, 1929. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
^ Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
^ MolluscaBase (2018). Actinocyclus Ehrenberg, 1831. Accessed on 2019-02-02.
^ Valdés, A. (2002). "Review of the genus Actinocyclus Ehrenberg, 1831 (Opisthobranchia: Doridoidea)". The Veliger. 45 (3). California Malacozoological Society: 193–202. ISSN 0042-3211.
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^ MolluscaBase (2018). Sphaerodoris Bergh, 1877. Accessed on 2019-02-02.

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