Ceratosoma
Appearance
Ceratosoma | |
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Ceratosoma brevicaudatum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Family: | Chromodorididae |
Genus: | Ceratosoma J. E. Gray in M. E. Gray, 1850[1] |
Type species | |
Ceratosoma trilobatum[2] |
Ceratosoma is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae.[5][6]
Taxonomic notes
[edit]This nudibranch genus is not to be confused with the muricid gastropod genus Ceratostoma. The type species is Ceratosoma cornigerum, accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827)
Species
[edit]Species in the genus Ceratosoma include:[5]
- Ceratosoma amoenum (Cheeseman, 1886)
- Ceratosoma bicolor Baba, 1949 - possibly a colour form of Ceratosoma trilobatum
- Ceratosoma brevicaudatum Abraham, 1876
- Ceratosoma gracillimum Semper in Bergh, 1876
- Ceratosoma ingozi Gosliner, 1996 Inkspot nudibranch
- Ceratosoma palliolatum Rudman, 1988
- Ceratosoma polyomma Bergh, 1880
- Ceratosoma pustulosum (Cuvier, 1804)
- Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876
- Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827) synonyms: Ceratosoma cornigerum
- Species brought into synonymy
- Ceratosoma adelaidae Basedow & Hedley, 1905 accepted as Ceratosoma brevicaudatum Abraham, 1876
- Ceratosoma alleni Gosliner, 1996 : synonym of Miamira alleni (Gosliner, 1996)
- Ceratosoma amoena [sic] accepted as Ceratosoma amoenum (Cheeseman, 1886)
- Ceratosoma berghi Rochebrune, 1895 accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827)
- Ceratosoma bicorne Bergh, 1905 accepted as Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876
- Ceratosoma caledonicum Fischer, 1876 accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827)
- Ceratosoma corallinum Odhner, 1917 accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827)
- Ceratosoma cornigerum (Adams & Reeve, 1850) accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827)
- Ceratosoma flavicostatum Baba, 1940 : synonym of Miamira flavicostata Baba, 1940
- Ceratosoma francoisi Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876
- Ceratosoma gibbosum Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827)
- Ceratosoma jousseaumi Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876
- Ceratosoma lixi Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827)
- Ceratosoma magnifica [sic] accepted as Miamira magnifica Eliot, 1904
- Ceratosoma magnificum (Eliot, 1910) : synonym of Miamira magnifica Eliot, 1904
- Ceratosoma miamiranum Bergh, 1875 : synonym of Miamira miamirana (Bergh, 1875)
- Ceratosoma moloch Rudman, 1988 [1]: synonym of Miamira moloch (Rudman, 1988)
- Ceratosoma oblongum Abraham, 1876 accepted as Ceratosoma brevicaudatum Abraham, 1876
- Ceratosoma ornatum Bergh, 1890 accepted as Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876
- Ceratosoma rhopalicum Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876
- Ceratosoma sinuatum van Hasselt, 1824: synonym of Miamira sinuata (van Hasselt, 1824)
References
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- ^ Gray, J. E. (1850). Explanation of plates and list of genera. In M.E. Gray, Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Vol. 4. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 124 pp.
- ^ Molluscabase https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212893
- ^ Pages 13, pl. 67 fig. 14 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11632090#page/9/mode/1up(1848-50).
- ^ https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212891
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Ceratosoma A. Adams & Reeve, 1850. Accessed on 2018-12-01
- ^ Rudman W.B. (1984) The date and authorship of Bornella and Ceratosoma (Nudibranchia) and other molluscs collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, 1843-46. Malacological Review 17: 103-104, page(s): 170