Gargamella

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Gargamella
Gargamella perezi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Infraorder: Doridoidei
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Gargamella
(Bergh, 1894)[1]
Synonyms

Gargamella (Canadoris) Ortea, Moro & Bacallado, 2006

Gargamella is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Discodorididae.[2]

Species[edit]

Species in the genus Gargamella include:[3]

Synonyms[edit]

  • Gargamella latior Odhner, 1926: synonym of Gargamella immaculata Bergh, 1894
  • Gargamella novozealandica Eliot, 1907 is a synonym of Jorunna pantherina

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bergh, L. S. R. (1894). Die Opisthobranchien. Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer “Albatross”, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 25(10):125-233, pls. 1-12.
  2. ^ Valdés Á. (2002). A phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of the cryptobranch dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Anthobranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 136: 535-636
  3. ^ Bouchet, P. (2010). Gargamella Bergh, 1894. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-03-01
  4. ^ Gosliner, T.M. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa ISBN 0-930118-13-8
  5. ^ Zsilavecz, G. 2007. Nudibranchs of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. ISBN 0-620-38054-3