Costasiella

Costasiella
Costasiella
Costasiella cf. kuroshimae on Avrainvillea erecta. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 1 cm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
clade Placobranchacea
Superfamily: Limapontioidea
Family: Limapontiidae
Genus: Costasiella
Pruvot-Fol, 1951[1]

Costasiella is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.

The most recent diagnosis of the genus Costasiella is by the Dutch malacologist Cornelis Kees Swennen (2007).[2]

Species

There are 15 species in the genus Costasiella[2] (sorted chronologically):

  • Costasiella ocellifera (Simroth, 1895)
  • Costasiella virescens Pruvot-Fol, 1951
  • Costasiella formicaria (Baba, 1959)
  • Costasiella nonatoi Marcus & Marcus, 1960
  • Costasiella illa (Marcus, 1965)
  • Costasiella lilianae (Marcus & Marcus, 1969) - Clark (1984)[3] considered this as a synonym for Costasiella ocellifera[2]
  • Costasiella pallida Jensen, 1985
  • Costasiella paweli Ichikawa, 1993
  • Costasiella usagi Ichikawa, 1993
  • Costasiella vegae Ichikawa, 1993
  • Costasiella rubrolineata Ichikawa, 1993
  • Costasiella iridophora Ichikawa, 1993
  • Costasiella kuroshimae Ichikawa, 1993
  • Costasiella mandorahae Jensen 1997
  • Costasiella coronata Swennen, 2007[2]

References

  1. ^ (French) Pruvot-Fol A. (1951). "Étude des nudibranches de la Méditerranée". Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale 88(1): 73.
  2. ^ a b c d Swennen C. (31 August 2007). "Costasiella coronata, new species, and a revised diagnosis for the Family Costasiellidae (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2): 355-362. PDF
  3. ^ Clark K. B. (1984). "New records and synonymies of Bermuda Opisthobranchs (Gastropoda)". The Nautilus 98: 85–97.


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