''Dermatobranchus'' is a
genus
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of
sea slug
Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are sea snails (marine gastropod mollusks) that over evolutionary t ...
s, or
nudibranch
Nudibranchs () are a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs which shed their shells after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colours and striking forms, and they have been given colourful nicknames to matc ...
s,
marine
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
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s in the family
Arminidae
Arminidae is a family of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arminoidea.
Taxonomy
The family Arminidae is classified within the clade Cladobranchia, itself belonging to the clade Nudibranchia (according to the taxonomy of ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2011)]
''Dermatobranchus'' van Hasselt, 1824.
Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-04-15
Biology
''Dermatobranchus'' species feed on
octocorals
Octocorallia (also known as Alcyonaria) is a class of Anthozoa comprising around 3,000 species of water-based organisms formed of colonial polyps with 8-fold symmetry. It includes the blue coral, soft corals, sea pens, and gorgonians (sea fans ...
including
sea fans
Alcyonacea, or soft corals, are an order of corals. In addition to the fleshy soft corals, the order Alcyonacea now contains all species previously known as "gorgonian corals", that produce a more or less hard skeleton, though quite different f ...
and
sea pen
Sea pens are colonial marine cnidarians belonging to the order Pennatulacea. There are 14 families within the order; 35 extant genera, and it is estimated that of 450 described species, around 200 are valid. Sea pens have a cosmo ...
s.
Species
Species within the genus ''Dermatobranchus'' include:
* ''
Dermatobranchus albineus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus albopunctulatus''
Baba, 1949
* ''
Dermatobranchus albus''
(Eliot, 1904)
* ''
Dermatobranchus arminus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus caesitius''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus cymatilis''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus dendronephthyphagus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus diagonalis''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus earlei''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus fasciatus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus fortunatus''
(Bergh, 1888)
* ''
Dermatobranchus funiculus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus glaber''
(Eliot, 1908)
* ''
Dermatobranchus gonatophorus''
van Hasselt, 1824
* ''
Dermatobranchus kalyptos''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus kokonas''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus leoni''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus marginlatus''
Lin, 1981
* ''
Dermatobranchus microphallus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus multidentatus''
Baba, 1949
* ''
Dermatobranchus multistriatus''
Lin, 1981
* ''
Dermatobranchus nigropunctatus''
Baba, 1949
* ''
Dermatobranchus oculus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus ornatus''
(Bergh, 1874)
* ''
Dermatobranchus otome''
Baba, 1992
* ''
Dermatobranchus phyllodes''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus piperoides''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus primus''
Baba, 1976
* ''
Dermatobranchus pustulosus''
van Hasselt, 1824
* ''
Dermatobranchus rodmani''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus rubidus''
(Gould, 1852)
* ''
Dermatobranchus sagamianus''
Baba, 1949
* ''
Dermatobranchus semilunus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus semistriatus''
Baba, 1949
* ''Dermatobranchus'' sp. 1
white-ridged nudibranch[Gosliner, T.M. 1987. ''Nudibranchs of Southern Africa'' ]
* ''Dermatobranchus'' sp. 4
brown ridged nudibranch
* ''
Dermatobranchus striatellus''
Baba, 1949
* ''
Dermatobranchus striatus''
van Hasselt, 1824
* ''
Dermatobranchus substriatus''
Baba, 1949
* ''
Dermatobranchus tongshanensis''
Lin, 1981
* ''
Dermatobranchus tuberculatus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Dermatobranchus pulcherrimus''
Miller & Willan, 1986: synonym of ''
Dermatobranchus rubidus'' (Gould, 1852)
* ''Dermatobranchus walteri''
(Krause, 1892): synonym of ''
Doridoxa walteri
Doridoxidae, commonly known as doridoxid nudibranchs, are a small, enigmatic Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family of shell-less sea slugs, Marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Cladobranchia within the clade Nudibranchia.
Dorid ...
'' (Krause, 1892)
References
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Arminidae