Aegires
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| A live individual of the knobbly nudibranch, Aegires ninguis | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Genus: | Aegires |
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Aegires is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aegiridae.[2] Species within this genus feed exclusively on calcareous sponges.[3]
Aegires is the type genus of the family Aegiridae.[4]
Species
Species in the genus Aegires include:[2]
- Aegires absalaoi Garcia, Troncoso & Dominguez, 2002
- Aegires acauda Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 2015
- Aegires albopunctatus MacFarland, 1905
- Aegires albus Thiele, 1912
- Aegires citrinus Pruvot-Fol, 1930
- Aegires corrugatus Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 2015
- Aegires evorae Moro & Ortea, 2015
- Aegires exeches Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[4]
- Aegires flores Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[4]
- Aegires gomezi Ortea, Luque & Templado, 1990
- Aegires gracilis Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 2015
- Aegires hapsis Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[4]
- Aegires incisus (G.O. Sars, 1872)
- Aegires incusus Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[4]
- Aegires lagrifaensis Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 2015
- Aegires lemoncello Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[4]
- Aegires leuckartii Vérany, 1853
- Aegires malinus Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[4]
- Aegires ninguis Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[4]
- Aegires ochum Ortea, Espinosa & Caballer, 2013
- Aegires ortizi Templado, Luque & Ortea, 1987
- Aegires palensis Ortea, Luque & Templado, 1990
- Aegires petalis Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[4]
- Aegires punctilucens (d'Orbigny, 1837) - type species of Aegires
- Aegires sublaevis Odhner, 1932
- Aegires villosus Farran, 1905
- Species brought into synonymy
- Aegires citrinus (Bergh, 1875): synonym of Notodoris citrina Bergh, 1875
- Aegires gardineri (Eliot, 1906): synonym of Notodoris gardineri Eliot, 1906
- Aegires hispidus Hesse, 1872: synonym of Aegires punctilucens (d'Orbigny, 1837)
- Aegires leuckarti [sic]: synonym of Aegires leuckartii Vérany, 1853
- Aegires minor (Eliot, 1904): synonym of Notodoris minor Eliot, 1904
- Aegires protectus Odhner, 1934: synonym of Aegires albus Thiele, 1912
- Aegires pruvotfolae Fahey & Gosliner, 2004: synonym of Aegires citrinus Pruvot-Fol, 1930
- Aegires serenae (Gosliner & Behrens, 1997): synonym of Notodoris serenae Gosliner & Behrens, 1997
References
- ^ Lovén S. L. (1844). Ofvers. K. Vet. Acad. Förh. 1(3): 49.
- ^ a b c Bouchet, P. (2015). Aegiridae. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-08.
- ^ Vietti RC, Balduzzi A (1991). "Relationship between radular morphology and food in the Doridina (Mollusca: Nudibranchia). Malacologia 32(2)": 211–217.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c d e f g h i Fahey S. J. & Gosliner T. M. (2004). A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Aegiridae Fischer, 1883 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Phanerobranchia) with Descriptions of Eight New Species and a Reassessment of Phanerobranch Relationships. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 55(34): 613-689.
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