Biology:Capellinia

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Capellinia is a genus of sea slugs, specifically of aeolid nudibranchs in the family Eubranchidae.[1]

Species

According to Korshunova et al. (2025), species in this genus include[2]:

Additional taxa within Capellinia not provided with an alternate designation by Korshunova et al. (2025) include[1]:

  • Capellinia prietoi Llera & Ortea, 1981
  • Capellinia steinbecki Behrens, 1987
Taxon inquirendum
  • Capellinia fuscannulata K. P. Rao, 1968
Species brought into synonymy
  • Capellinia capellinii (Trinchese, 1879): synonym of Eubranchus capellinii (Trinchese, 1879) (synonym)
  • Capellinia conicla Er. Marcus, 1958: synonym of Eubranchus conicla (Er. Marcus, 1958) (original combination)
  • Capellinia rustya Marcus, 1961: synonym of Eubranchus rustyus (Er. Marcus, 1961)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Capellinia Trinchese, 1873. Accessed on 2021-04-09.
  2. Korshunova T.; Fletcher K.; Martynov A. (2025). The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 204, Issue 4, August 2025, zlaf057,
  • Martynov A.V. (1998). Opisthobranch mollusks (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) of the family Eubranchidae: Taxonomy and two new species from the Sea of Japan [in Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 77(7): 763-777

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