Navanax polyalphos (Gosliner & Williams, 1972) [Aglaja]
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Taxonomy:
Class: Gastropoda  Cuvier, 1797
Subclass: Heterobranchia  J.E. Gray, 1840
Clade: Euthyneura  Spengel, 1881
Clade: Euopisthobranchia  Jörger et al., 2010
Clade: Cephalaspidea  P. Fischer., 1883
Superfamily: Philinoidea  J.E. Gray, 1850
Family: Aglajidae  Pilsbry, 1895 (1847)
Genus: Navanax  Pilsbry, 1895
Species: Navanax polyalphos (Gosliner & Williams, 1972) [Aglaja]

formerly:
Class: GASTROPODA   Cuvier, 1797 
Subclass: OPISTHOBRANCHIA Milne-Edwards, 1848 
Order: CEPHALASPIDEA  Fischer, P., 1883 

have a look at
Jörger, Stöger, Kano, Fukuda, Knebelsberger & Schrödl (2010). 
"On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". 
BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. 
complete online at  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/323
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