taxonID	type	description	language	source
03E1879FCB6EFFB7FC62FBB31809F968.taxon	discussion	Within the Discodorididae, some genera were recovered monophyletic in our analyses, i. e. Asteronotus, Avaldesia, Geitodoris, Halgerda Bergh, 1880, Hoplodoris, Paradoris, and Platodoris, yet some others were not. For example, the genus Atagema was recovered monophyletic with the caveat that it also includes the South American species Diaulula hispida. However, as Valdés and Muniain (2002) indicated, Dia. hispida is characterized by having a dorsal longitudinal ridge, which is unique to members of the genus Atagema. Tis, together with our molecular evidence, leads us to propose Atagema hispida comb. rest.. Additional species traditionally assigned to Diaulula appear in separate clades, suggesting this group needs reassessment. Te type species Dia. sandiegensis was included in a well-supported clade containing Dia. punctuolata. Tis clade needs further data and sequences from additional species of Diaulula, but if the name Diaulula is restricted to the clade containing the type species, other species previously assigned to Diaulula, such as Dia. greeleoi and Dia. naoarita, need a new generic placement.	en	Fernández-Vilert, Robert, Arnedo, Miquel A., Salvador, Xavi, Valdés, Ángel, Schrödl, Michael, Moles, Juan (2025): Shining disco: shedding light into the systematics of the family Discodorididae (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1): 1-15, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae170, URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae170
03E1879FCB6EFFB7FE9EFBD3186FFBFB.taxon	discussion	Te families Dorididae and Discodorididae sensu Valdés (2002) are paraphyletic because Aphelodoris and Atagema, which were traditionally considered to belong to Dorididae and Discodorididae, respectively, cluster together in a separate clade outside both families. Similar results were found in other molecular analyses highlighting Aphelodoris as a problematic group (Hallas et al. 2017) against morphological odds (Valdés 2002). Another conflicting result with morphological data is the fact that the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids are not monophyletic (Valdés 2002, Fahey and Healy 2003), which contradicts the conclusions by Valdés and Gosliner (2001). Tese results suggest that these complex dermal organs have evolved multiple times independently or have evolved early in Discodorididae (based on the early split of Atagema) and have been lost multiple times. Te family Dorididae contains a substantial amount of diversity, suggesting that the proposal by Valdés (2002) to synonymize several taxa with the genus Doris was overly simplistic. More work is needed in this group to provide a more up-to-date taxonomy consistent with both molecular and morphological data. Since Doriopsis, Conualevia, and Homoiodoris are accepted genera within Dorididae, the Northern Hemisphere genus Archidoris and the Southern Hemisphere Austrodoris, synonyms of Doris, should be re-erected. Within Dorididae, our results support recent findings by Renau et al. (2024), except for the inclusion of Rostanga poddubetskaiae. Te morpho-anatomical characters that define the species were recognized as unusual, but molecular data placed the species in the genus Rostanga (Innabi et al. 2023). Here, we suggest transferring the species to Dorididae under the name ‘ Doris ’ poddubetskaiae comb. nov. pending a thorough taxonomic assessment of Dorididae.	en	Fernández-Vilert, Robert, Arnedo, Miquel A., Salvador, Xavi, Valdés, Ángel, Schrödl, Michael, Moles, Juan (2025): Shining disco: shedding light into the systematics of the family Discodorididae (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1): 1-15, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae170, URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae170
03E1879FCB61FFB8FF0EF99A1E65F861.taxon	discussion	Moreover, the present study suggests the existence of a species complex of five different species under the name Tao. lilacina, which also requires further research. Since we do not have material from the type locality (Hawaii), we cannot determine which specimen represents the true Tao. lilacina until further studies. Te specimens assigned to Tao. lilacina from the Mediterranean Sea should be transferred to Dis. maculosa Bergh, 1884 (Dayrat 2011), which is the oldest name available for this region (type locality Naples, Italy), under the new name	en	Fernández-Vilert, Robert, Arnedo, Miquel A., Salvador, Xavi, Valdés, Ángel, Schrödl, Michael, Moles, Juan (2025): Shining disco: shedding light into the systematics of the family Discodorididae (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1): 1-15, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae170, URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae170
