Rostanga

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Rostanga
A live individual of Rostanga pulchra, 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: Discodorididae
Genus: Rostanga
(Bergh, 1879)[1]
Type species
Rostanga coccinea (Forbes in Alder & Hancock, 1848) synonym of Rostanga rubra
Synonyms

Boreodoris Odhner, 1939

Rostanga is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Discodorididae.[2] Some sources, such as The Sea Slug Forum still classify Rostanga in the family Dorididae.

Phylogeny

A phylogenetic analysis shows that the species Rostanga aureamala, Rostanga elandsia, Rostanga pepha and Rostanga setidens form a sister group with the other species in this genus. The species from Japan and the Marshall Islands form the basal clade. The species from the tropical Indo-Pacific are not monophyletic. The species from the Atlantic Ocean and the Eastern Pacific from a clade that is a sister group to R. australis. The Indo-Pacific species Rostanga bifurcata forms a sister group to Rostanga dentacus.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Rostanga include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. Bergh L. S. R. (1879). "Gattungen nordische Doriden". Archiv für Naturgeschichte 45(1): 340-369, pl. 19.
  2. Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Garovoy, J. B.; Valdés, A.; Gosliner, T. M. (2001). "Phylogeny of the genus Rostanga (Nudibranchia), with descriptions of three new species from South Africa". Journal of Molluscan Studies 67: 131–144. doi:10.1093/mollus/67.2.131. ISSN 1464-3766. abstract.
  4. Martynov A. V. (2003). "A new species of the genus Rostanga Bergh, 1879 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) from the Peter the Great Bay, the Japan Sea, with a discussion on the genus Boreodoris Odhner, 1939". Ruthenica 13(2): 141-147. abstract.
  5. WoRMS (2010). Rostanga alisae Martynov, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=388336 on 2011-01-08
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Sea Slug Forum : Rostanga
  7. Valdés Á. (2001). "Deep-sea cryptobranch dorid nudibranchs (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) from the tropical West Pacific, with descriptions of two new genera and eighteen new species". Malacologia 43(1-2): 237-311. page 294-296.
  8. WoRMS (2010). Rostanga ankyra Valdes, 2001. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=458477 on 2011-01-08
  9. Gofas, S. (2010). Rostanga anthelia Perrone, 1991. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141403 on 2011-01-08
  10. Rosenberg, G. (2010). Rostanga byga Er. Marcus, 1958. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533390 on 2011-01-08
  11. Edmunds, M. 2011: Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Ghana: Discodorididae. Journal of conchology, 40(6): 617-649. abstract
  12. Baba, K. 1991: Review of the genus Rostanga of Japan with the description of a new species (Nudibranchia: Dorididae). Venus, 50(1): 43-54. abstract
  13. Gofas, S. (2010). Rostanga rubra (Risso, 1818). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141404 on 2011-01-08
  14. Gofas, S. (2010). Rostanga setidens (Odhner, 1939). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146728 on 2011-01-08

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