Aegires

Aegires
A live individual of the knobbly nudibranch, Aegires ninguis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Aegiridae
Genus: Aegires
Lovén, 1844[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Aegirus Agassiz, 1846 (unjustified emendation, introduced in synonymy)
  • Anaegires Odhner, 1934
  • Serigea F. Nordsieck, 1972
  • Triopella G.O. Sars, 1878

Aegires is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aegiridae.[2] Members of the species in this genus feed exclusively on calcareous sponges.[3] Images of the radula can be seen in these references.[4] and [5]

Aegires is the type genus of the family Aegiridae.[6]

Species

Species in the genus Aegires include:[2]

Species brought into synonymy


References

  1. Lovén S. L. (1844). Ofvers. K. Vet. Acad. Förh. 1(3): 49.
  2. 1 2 3 Bouchet, P. (2015). Aegiridae. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-08.
  3. Vietti RC, Balduzzi A (1991). "Relationship between radular morphology and food in the Doridina (Mollusca: Nudibranchia). Malacologia 32(2)": 211–217.
  4. Troncoso, J.S.; García, F.J.; Backeljau, T.; Urgorri, V. (1996). "Faunistic and anatomical data on the Antarctic Opisthobranchia (Mollusca Gastropoda) in the collections of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences" (PDF). Biologie 66: 29–40.
  5. Wägele, H. (1987). "Redescription and anatomy of Aegires (Anaegires) albus Thiele, 1912 (Opisthobranchia, Doridacea) and synonymy with A. protectus Odhner, 1934". Polar Biology 7 (5): 267–272. doi:10.1007/BF00443944.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Fahey S. J. & Gosliner T. M. (2004). A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Aegiridae Fischer, 1883 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Phanerobranchia) with Descriptions of Eight New Species and a Reassessment of Phanerobranch Relationships. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 55(34): 613-689.


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