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Genus of gastropods

Okenia
Okenia atkinsonorum, Nelson Bay NSW, head end towards the left
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Goniodorididae
Genus: Okenia
Menke, 1830
Type species
Idalia elegans
Leuckart, 1828
Synonyms
  • 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, ; 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:

Nomen dubium
  • Okenia pusilla Sordi, 1974
Species names considered to be synonyms
  • 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 quadricornis (Montagu, 1815): synonym of Okenia aspersa (Alder & Hancock, 1845)

References

  1. Menke (1830). Synopsis ed. 2, 10.
  2. ^ Okenia Menke, 1830. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 January 2019.
  3. Edmunds M. (2009) "Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Ghana: Goniodorididae". Journal of Conchology 40(1): 37-54. abstract Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine.
  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 Archived 2010-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
  • Leuckart F. S. (1828). Breves animalium quorundum maxima ex parte marinorum descriptiones. Heidelberg pp. 24:
  • Bergh, L. S. R. 1881. Ueber die Gattung Idalia, Leuckart. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 47(1):140-181, pls. 6-8
  • Odhner N.J. 1941. New polycerid nudibranchiate mollusca and remarks on this family. Göteborgs Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhälles Handlingar, Ser. B, Matematiska och Naturvetenskapliga Skrifter, 1(11): 1-20
  • Edmunds, M. (1966). Teshia digitata gen. and sp. nov., a dorid nudibranch from Ghana. Journal of the malacological Society of London. 37: 69-72
  • 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.
  • Hamatani I. (2001) Two new species of Goniodorididae (Opisthobranchia; Nudibranchia) with a new genus from Kuroshima Island, Okinawa, Japan. Venus, 60(3): 151-156

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
Taxon identifiers
Okenia
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