''Toledonia'' is a

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.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Toledonia Dall, 1902. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137896 on 2014-12-12 ''Toledonia'' is the type genus of the subfamily Toledoniinae.

Description

''Toledonia'' was originally described by American malacologist

William Healey Dall William Healey Dall (August 21, 1845 – March 27, 1927) was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of America, and w ...

in 1902. Dall's original text (the

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) reads as follows:

Species

Species within the genus ''Toledonia'' include: * '' Toledonia brevior'' Eales, 1923 * '' Toledonia bullata'' (

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, 1847) - Distribution: Falklands, Argentina. Length: 9.2 mm. * '' Toledonia circumrosa'' (Thiele, 1904) * '' Toledonia elata'' Thiele, 1912 * '' Toledonia epongensis'' Valdés, 2008 * '' Toledonia globosa'' Hedley, 1916 * '' Toledonia limnaeaeformis'' (E. A. Smith, 1879) - Distribution: Antarctica. * '' Toledonia limnaeoides'' ( Odhner, 1913) - Distribution: West Greenland. Length: 2.6 mm. * '' Toledonia major'' (Hedley, 1911) - synonym: ''Toledonia elata'' J. Thiele, 1912 - Distribution: Subantarctic, South Sandwich Islands,

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; Antarctic Peninsula. Length: 6.6 mm. Found at depths up to 200 m. * '' Toledonia media'' Thiele, 1912 * '' Toledonia neocaledonica'' Valdés, 2008 * '' Toledonia palmeri''

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, 1990 - Distribution: Antarctic. Length: 2.6 mm. * '' Toledonia parelata''

, 1990 - Distribution: Tierra del Fuego. Length: 6.1 mm. Found at depths between 80 m and 230 m. * '' Toledonia perplexa'' Dall, 1902 - type species. Distribution: Argentina; Tierra del Fuego;

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; Falklands. Length: 3.2 mm. Description: found to depths of 230 m. * '' Toledonia punctata'' J. Thiele, 1912 - Distribution: Subantarctic, Tierra del Fuego; South Georgia; Kerguelen. Length: 6 mm. Description: found at depths between 115 m and 567 m. * '' Toledonia seguenzae'' (Watson, 1886) * '' Toledonia striata'' J. Thiele, 1912 - Distribution: Antarctica. * '' Toledonia succineaformis'' Powell, 1955 - Distribution: New Zealand. * '' Toledonia vagabunda'' (Mabille, 1885) - Distribution: Tierra del Fuego. Length: 10 mm. * '' Toledonia warenella'' Golding, 2010 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Toledonia hedleyi'' Powell, 1958: synonym of '' Toledonia major'' (Hedley, 1911) * ''Toledonia normani'' (Friele, 1886): synonym of '' Ondina normani'' (Friele, 1886) * ''Toledonia ringei (''Strebel, 1905): synonym of '' Toledonia vagabunda'' (Mabille, 1885) * ''Toledonia typica'' (Thiele, 1904):Bouchet, P. (2010). ''Toledonia typica'' (Thiele, 1904). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=509708 on 2010-12-10 synonym of '' Toledonia limnaeaeformis'' (E. A. Smith, 1879)

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference. * Marcus Ev. (1976). ''A taxonomic survey of the genus Toledonia Dall, 1902 (Opisthobranchia: Diaphanidae).'' Zoologica Scripta 5:25-33.

External links

''Toledonia'' at Antarctic Invertebrates

Thiele, Johannes. "Die antarktischen schnecken und muscheln." Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition (1901–1903) 13 (1912): 183-286
{{Taxonbar, from=Q7814206 Cylichnidae Taxa named by William Healey Dall