Okenia

Okenia
Okenia atkinsonorum, Nelson Bay NSW, head end towards the left
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Euctenidiacea clade Doridacea
Superfamily:	Onchidoridoidea
Family:	Goniodorididae
Genus:	Okenia Menke, 1830[1]
Type species
Idalia elegans Leuckart, 1828
Synonyms[2]
Bermudella Odhner, 1941 Cargoa Vogel & Schultz, 1970 Ceratodoris Gray, 1850 Echinodoris Bergh, 1874 Hopkinsia MacFarland, 1905 Hopkinsiella Baba, 1938 Idalia Leuckart, 1828 (invalid: junior homonym of Idalia Huebner, [1820]; Okenia and Idalina are replacement names) Idaliella Bergh, 1881 Idalina Norman, 1890 Sakishimaia Hamatani, 2001 Teshia Edmunds, 1966

Okenia is a genus of colorful sea slugs, specifically of dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Goniodorididae.

Species

Species within the genus Okenia include:

• Okenia academica Camacho-Garcia & Gosliner, 2004
• Okenia africana Edmunds, 2009^[3]
• Okenia ameliae Ortea, Moro & Caballer, 2014
• Okenia amoenula (Bergh, 1907)^[4]
• Okenia angelensis Lance, 1966
• Okenia angelica Gosliner & Bertsch, 2004
• Okenia aspersa (Alder & Hancock, 1845)
• Okenia atkinsonorum Rudman, 2007
• Okenia barnardi Baba, 1937
• Okenia brunneomaculata Gosliner, 2004^[5]
• Okenia cochimi Gosliner & Bertsch, 2004
• Okenia cupella (Vogel & Schultz, 1970)
• Okenia digitata (Edmunds, 1966)
• Okenia distincta Baba, 1940
• Okenia echinata Baba, 1949
• Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828) - type species^[5]
• Okenia eolida (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
• Okenia evelinae Er. Marcus, 1957
• Okenia felis Gosliner, 2010^[6]
• Okenia ghanensis Edmunds, 2009
• Okenia hallucigenia Rudman, 2004
• Okenia harastii Pola, Roldán & Padilla, 2014
• Okenia hiroi (Baba, 1938)
• Okenia hispanica Valdes & Ortea, 1995
• Okenia impexa Er. Marcus, 1957
• Okenia japonica Baba, 1949^[5]
• Okenia kendi Gosliner, 2004^[5]
• Okenia kondoi (Hamatani, 2001)^[5] - originally described as Sakishimaia kondoi Hamatani, 2001
• Okenia lambat Gosliner, 2004^[5]
• Okenia leachii (Alder & Hancock, 1854)
• Okenia liklik Gosliner, 2004^[5]
• Okenia luna Millen, Schrödl, Vargas, & Indacochea, 1994
• Okenia mediterranea (Ihering, 1886)
• Okenia mellita Rudman, 2004
• Okenia mexicorum Gosliner & Bertsch, 2004
• Okenia mica Ortea & Moro, 2014
• Okenia mija Burn, 1967
• Okenia miramarae Ortea & Espinosa, 2000
• Okenia nakamotoensis (Hamatani, 2001)^[5]
• Okenia opuntia Baba, 1960
• Okenia pellucida Burn, 1967^[5]
• Okenia pilosa (Bouchet & Ortea, 1983)^[5]
• Okenia purpurata Rudman, 2004
• Okenia purpureolineata Gosliner, 2004^[5]
• Okenia rhinorma Rudman, 2007
• Okenia rosacea (MacFarland, 1905)^[5]
• Okenia sapelona Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967
• Okenia stellata Rudman, 2004
• Okenia vancouverensis (O'Donoghue, 1921)
• Okenia vena Rudman, 2004
• Okenia virginiae Gosliner, 2004^[5]
• Okenia zoobotryon (Smallwood, 1910)

Species names considered to be synonyms:

• Okenia ascidicola M.P. Morse, 1972: synonym of Okenia aspersa (Alder & Hancock, 1845)
• Okenia dautzenbergi Vayssière, 1919: synonym of Okenia aspersa (Alder & Hancock, 1845)
• Okenia modesta (A. E. Verrill, 1875): synonym of Okenia aspersa (Alder & Hancock, 1845)
• Okenia plana Baba, 1960^[5]
• Okenia polycerelloides (Ortea & Bouchet, 1983): synonym of Okenia zoobotryon (Smallwood, 1910)
• Okenia pulchella Alder & Hancock, 1854: synonym of Okenia aspersa (Alder & Hancock, 1845)
• Okenia pusilla Sordi, 1974: synonym of Okenia cupella (Vogel & Schultz, 1970)
• Okenia quadricornis (Montagu, 1815): synonym of Okenia aspersa (Alder & Hancock, 1845)

References

1. Menke (1830). Synopsis ed. 2, 10.
2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Okenia Menke, 1830. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138042 on 2014-10-21
3. Edmunds M. (2009) "Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Ghana: Goniodorididae". Journal of Conchology 40(1): 37-54. abstract.
4. Gosliner T.M. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa ISBN 0-930118-13-8
5. Gosliner T. M. (2004). "Phylogenetic Systematics of Okenia, Sakishmaia, Hopkinsiella and Hopkinsia (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) with descriptions of new species from the tropical Indo-Pacific". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 55(5): 125-161. PDF.
6. Gosliner T. M. (2010). "Two New Species of Nudibranch Mollusks From the Coast of California". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66: 623-631. PDF

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: pp. 180-213.

Further reading

• Behrens David W., 1980, ‘’Pacific Coast Nudibranchs: a guide to the opisthobranchs of the northeastern Pacific’’, Sea Challenger Books, California
• http://www.catalogueoflife.org accessed 25 August 2009

External links

• Data related to Okenia at Wikispecies