Doridoidea

Doridoidea, commonly known as dorid nudibranchs (and previously known as the taxon Cryptobranchia), are a taxonomic superfamily of medium to large, shell-less sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Doridacea, included in the clade Nudibranchia.

Johnson in 2011[2] has shown that Cadlina does not belong to the family Chromodorididae.

She has therefore brought back the name Cadlinidae from synonymy with Chromodorididae.

The chromodorid nudibranchs without Cadlina are now monophyletic and turn out to be a possible sister to the Actinocyclidae The next families are considered synonyms.

The Labiostomata include the monophyletic families: Actinocyclidae, Chromodorididae, Dorididae and Discodorididae.

Mating pair of cryptobranchs ( Diaulula sandiegensis )