Corambe
| Corambe | |
|---|---|
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| The crazed nudibranch, Corambe sp. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Onchidoridoidea |
| Family: | Onchidorididae |
| Genus: | Corambe Bergh, 1869[1] |
| Synonyms | |
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Corambella, Doridella, Paracorambe, Suhinia, Quasicorambe, Neocorambe, Gulbinia | |
Corambe is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in family Onchidorididae within the superfamily Onchidoridoidea.[2]
Species in this genus show a characteristic posterior notch in the notum (which is lacking in some taxa) and a characteristic gill morphology, especially the presence of ventral gills.
Habitat
These nudibranchs occur in littoral and sublittoral temperate waters of the northern and southern hemispheres.
General description
They are mostly small (between 5 and 10 mm) and rather hard to find because they are very well camouflaged. They prey on encrusting bryozoans.
Species
Species within the genus Corambe include:
- Corambe burchi (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967)
- Corambe carambola Er. Marcus, 1955
- Corambe evelinae Er. Marcus, 1958
- Corambe lucea Er. Marcus, 1959
- Corambe mancorensis Martynov, Brenzinger, Hooker & Schrödl, 2011
- Corambe obscura (A. E. Verrill, 1870)
- Corambe pacifica MacFarland & O'Donoghue, 1929
- Corambe sp. crazed nudibranch[3]
- Corambe steinbergae (Lance, 1962) (synonym of Doridella steinbergae (Lance, 1962) )
- Corambe testudinaria H. Fischer, 1889
Species synonymised or transferred to other genera
- Corambe baratariae (Harry, 1953) = Corambe obscura
- Corambe batava Kerbert, 1886 = Corambe obscura
- Corambe depressa Adams, 1847
- Corambe fusca Adams, 1847
- Corambe sargassicola Bergh, 1871 (type species) = Corambe obscura
- Corambe thompsoni Millen & Nybakken, 1991
In 1994 it became a synonym of Psammodoris thompsoni (Millen & Nybakken, 1991) [4] and in 1998 synonym of Loy thompsoni (Millen & Nybakken, 1991)[5]
References
- http://www.catalogueoflife.org accessed 25 August 2009
- Swennen, C. & R. Dekker (1995). "Corambe batava Kerbert, 1886 (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia), an immigrant in the Netherlands, with a revision of the family Corambidae". Journal of Molluscan Studies 61: 97–107. doi:10.1093/mollus/61.1.97.
- ↑ Bergh R. (November 1871) Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-K\oniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, Abhandlungen 21: page 1293.
- ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1–2).
- ↑ Gosliner T. M. (1987) Nudibranchs of Southern Africa. ISBN 0-930118-13-8
- ↑ Martynov, A.V. (1994a). "Materials for the revision of nudibranchiate molluscs of the family Corambidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) Taxonomy. Communication 1". Zoologichesky Zhurnal 73 (10): 3–14.
- ↑ Vandes, Angel & P. Bouchet (1998). "A blind abyssal Corambidae (Mollusca,Nudibranchia) from the Norwegian Sea, with a reevaluation of the systematics of the family". Sardia 83 (1): 15–20.