''Doriopsilla'' 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, dorid
nudibranch
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s, shell-less
marine
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gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
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s in the
family
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Dendrodorididae
Dendrodorididae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the Superfamily Phyllidioidea.
Genera
A maximum-parsimony analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the 16S mtDNA gene
In biology, th ...
.
[Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. (1999). ''Phylogeny of the radula-less dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and a new family''. Zoologica Scripta 28: 315-360]
Description
''Doriopsilla'' and ''
Dendrodoris
''Dendrodoris'' is a genus of nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Dendrodorididae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Dendrodoris Ehrenberg, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphi ...
'' are genera which have frequently been confused, partly because both lack a radula. They feed by dissolving their sponge food externally, using enzymes, and then ingesting sponge cells without the sponge skeleton. They share this loss of the radula and method of feeding with the
Phyllidiidae
Phyllidiidae is a family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Phyllidioidea.
This family is within the clade Doridacea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Distributi ...
but look more like other
Dorid nudibranchs in having a rosette of gills surrounding a dorsal anus, whilst Phyllidiidae have the gills located beneath the edge of the mantle.
Species
Species so far described in this genus include:
[Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015)]
''Doriopsilla'' Bergh, 1880.
In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-13.
* ''
Doriopsilla albopunctata
''Doriopsilla albopunctata'', the white-spotted sea goddess, is a species of dorid nudibranch, a colorful sea slug, in the family Dendrodorididae. It is native to the Pacific Coast of North America, from Mendocino County, California south, possib ...
''
(J.G. Cooper, 1863)
* ''
Doriopsilla areolata''
(Bergh
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, 1880)
* ''
Doriopsilla aurea''
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
* ''
Doriopsilla bertschi''
Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015
* ''
Doriopsilla capensis''
Bergh
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In 2005, it merged with Didam to form the new municipality of Montferland
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, 1907
* ''
Doriopsilla carneola''
(Angas, 1864)
* ''
Doriopsilla davebehrensi''
Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015
* ''
Doriopsilla debruini''
Perrone, 2001
* ''
Doriopsilla elitae''
Valdés & Hamann, 2008
* ''
Doriopsilla espinosai''
Valdés & Ortea, 1998
* ''
Doriopsilla fulva''
(MacFarland, 1905)
* ''
Doriopsilla gemela''
Gosliner, Schaefer & Millen, 1999
* ''
Doriopsilla janaina''
Marcus and Marcus, 1967
* ''
Doriopsilla miniata''
(Alder and Hancock, 1864)
* ''
Doriopsilla nigrocera
''Doriopsilla'' is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Dendrodorididae.Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. (1999). ''Phylogeny of the radula-less dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the descripti ...
''
Yonow, 2012
* ''
Doriopsilla nigrolineata''
Meyer, 1977
* ''
Doriopsilla pallida''
Bergh, 1902
* ''
Doriopsilla peculiaris''
(Abraham, 1877)
* ''
Doriopsilla pelseneeri''
Oliviera, 1895
* ''
Doriopsilla pharpa
''Doriopsilla'' is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Dendrodorididae.Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. (1999). ''Phylogeny of the radula-less dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the descripti ...
''
Er. Marcus, 1961
* ''
Doriopsilla rowena''
Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967
* ''
Doriopsilla spaldingi''
Valdes & Behrens, 1998
* ''
Doriopsilla tishae''
Valdés & Hamann, 2008
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Doriopsilla ciminoi''
Avila, Ballesteros & Ortea, 1992 accepted as ''Doriopsilla areolata''
Bergh, 1880
* ''Doriopsilla fedalae''
Pruvot-Fol. 1953 : synonym of ''Doriopsilla areolata''
Bergh, 1880
* ''Doriopsilla leia''
Er. Marcus, 1961: synonym of ''Doriopsilla pharpa''
Er. Marcus, 1961
* ''Doriopsilla nigromaculata''
(Cockerell in Coc and Eliot, 1905): synonym of ''
Dendrodoris nigromaculata''
(Cockerell, 1905)
* ''Doriopsilla pusilla''
Pruvot-Fol, 1951 accepted as ''Doriopsilla areolata''
Bergh, 1880
* ''Doriopsilla rarispinosa''
Pruvot-Fol, 1951 accepted as ''Doriopsilla areolata''
Bergh, 1880
References
Dendrodorididae
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