Biology:Costasiella
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
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| Costasiella kuroshimae on Avrainvillea erecta. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 1 cm. | |
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| Genus: | Costasiella Pruvot-Fol, 1951[1]
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| Costasiella virescens Pruvot-Fol, 1951 | |
Costasiella is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranchid gastropod mollusk in the family Costasiellidae.[2]
The most recent diagnosis of the genus Costasiella is by the Dutch malacologist Cornelis Kees Swennen (2007).[3]
Species
There are 17 species in the genus Costasiella[3][2]
- Costasiella arenaria K. R. Jensen, Krug, Dupont & Nishina, 2014
- Costasiella coronata Swennen, 2007[3]
- Costasiella formicaria (Baba, 1959)
- Costasiella fridae Fernández-Simón & Moles, 2023
- Costasiella illa (Marcus, 1965)
- Costasiella iridophora Ichikawa, 1993
- Costasiella kuroshimae Ichikawa, 1993
- Costasiella mandorahae Jensen 1997
- Costasiella nonatoi Marcus & Marcus, 1960
- Costasiella ocellifera (Simroth, 1895)
- Costasiella pallida Jensen, 1985
- Costasiella patricki Espinoza, DuPont & Valdés, 2014
- Costasiella paweli Ichikawa, 1993
- Costasiella rubrolineata Ichikawa, 1993
- Costasiella usagi Ichikawa, 1993
- Costasiella vegae Ichikawa, 1993
- Costasiella virescens Pruvot-Fol, 1951
- Species brought into synonymy
- Costasiella lilianae (Marcus & Marcus, 1969) - Clark (1984):[4] synonym of Costasiella ocellifera (Simroth, 1895)[3]
References
- ↑ (in French) Pruvot-Fol A. (1951). "Étude des nudibranches de la Méditerranée". Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale 88(1): 73.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Costasiella Pruvot-Fol, 1951. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137845 on 2015-01-17
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Swennen C. (31 August 2007). "Costasiella coronata, new species, and a revised diagnosis for the Family Costasiellidae (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2) : 355-362. PDF
- ↑ Clark K. B. (1984). "New records and synonymies of Bermuda Opisthobranchs (Gastropoda)". The Nautilus 98: 85–97.
Wikidata ☰ Q3200693 entry
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