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Calmidae

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Calmidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:	Fionoidea
Family:	Calmidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923
Genera and species
Calma Alder & Hancock, 1855

Calmidae is a taxonomic familyofsea slugs with only one genus and two species. These are specifically aeolid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Fionoidea.^[1]

This family has no subfamilies.^[2]

Taxonomic history

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The genera in this family were moved to the family Fionidae as a result of a molecular phylogenetics study.^[3]

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Species in this family have an unusual diet for Nudibranchs. They feed on fish eggs.

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^ Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).

^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Calmidae Iredale & O'Donoghue, 1923. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-14

^ Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, L.; Ekimova, I; Chichvarkhin, A; Schepetov, D; Gosliner, T. M. (2016). A radical solution: The phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae. PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0167800.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Calmidae.

Animal Diversity - University of Michigan
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
Marine species database
Proc. malac. Soc. London 15: 200

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