Miamira
| Miamira | |
|---|---|
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| A live individual of Miamira sinuata in situ, head end towards the right | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Miamira Bergh, 1874 |
| Type species | |
| Miamira nobilis Bergh, 1874 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
|
Orodoris Bergh, 1875 | |
Miamira is a genus of colorful sea slugs, specifically dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae. [1]
Species
This genus includes the following species:
- Miamira alleni (Gosliner, 1996)
- Miamira flavicostata Baba, 1940
- Miamira magnifica Eliot, 1904
- Miamira miamirana (Bergh, 1875)
- Miamira moloch (Rudman, 1988)
- Miamira sinuata (van Hasselt, 1824)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Miamira nobilis Bergh, 1874: synonym of Miamira sinuata (van Hasselt, 1824)
References
- 1 2 Bouchet, P.; Caballer, M. (2012). Miamira. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567581 on 2012-07-21
- Johnson R.F. (2011) Breaking family ties: taxon sampling and molecular phylogeny of chromodorid nudibranchs (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Zoologica Scripta 40(2): 137-157. page(s): 139
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