Pteraeolidia

Pteraeolidia
Pteraeolidia ianthina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
Family: Facelinidae
Genus: Pteraeolidia
Bergh, 1875[1][2]
Type species
Pteraeolidia semperi (Bergh, 1870)

Pteraeolidia is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Facelinidae.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Pteraeolidia include:

A recent study suggests that there are many species of Pteraeolidia in the Indo-Pacific region.[4]

References

  1. Bergh R. (1875). Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 25: Abh., 652.
  2. Bergh, R. 1875. Neue Nacktschnecken der Südsee, malacologische Untersuchungen. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, 8: 185-232, pls 7-11.
  3. Bouchet, P. (2015). Pteraeolidia. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-07
  4. Wilson N.G. & Burghardt I. (2015). Here be dragons – phylogeography of Pteraeolidia ianthina (Angas, 1864) reveals multiple species of photosynthetic nudibranchs (Aeolidina: Nudibranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175(1): 119-133.

Further reading

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