Nembrotha

Nembrotha
Nembrotha lineolata (to the right with head uppermost) laying a bright orange egg spiral on a purple and white sea squirt Polycarpa aurata, (to the left).
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Euctenidiacea clade Doridacea
Superfamily:	Polyceroidea
Family:	Polyceridae
Subfamily:	Nembrothinae
Genus:	Nembrotha Bergh, 1877[1]

Nembrotha is a genus of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Polyceridae.

Nembrotha is the type genus of the subfamily Nembrothinae.

Species

Species in the genus Nembrotha include:

• Nembrotha aurea Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2008^[2]
• Nembrotha arnoldi Burn, 1957
• Nembrotha chamberlaini Gosliner & Behrens, 1997
• Nembrotha cristata Bergh, 1877
• Nembrotha divae
• Nembrotha eliora
• Nembrotha gratiosa
• Nembrotha guttata Yonow, 1993
• Nembrotha kubaryana Bergh, 1877 - synonym: Nembrotha nigerrima Bergh, 1877 ^[2][3]Name discussion
• Nembrotha lineolata Bergh, 1905
• Nembrotha livingstonei Sllan, 1933
• Nembrotha megalocera Yonow, 1990 - The Great Nembrotha
• Nembrotha milleri Gosliner & Behrens, 1997
• Nembrotha purpureolineata O'Donoghue, 1924 - synonym: Nembrotha rutilans (Pruvot-Fol, 1931). Synonym as of 2008.^[2]
• Nembrotha rosannulata Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2008^[2]

References

1. ^ Bergh R. (1877) In: Semper. Reis. Arch. Philipp. 2, Bd. 2, Heft 11: 450.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Pola M., Cervera J. L. & Gosliner T. M. (2008) "Revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Nembrotha (Nudibranchia: Dorididae: Polyceridae), with description of two new species". Scientia Marina 72(1): 145-183. doi:10.3989/scimar.2008.72n1145
3. ^ Pola M., Cervera J. L. & Gosliner T. M. (2008) "Description of the First Roboastra Species (Nudibranchia, Polyceridae, Nembrothinae) from the Western Atlantic". Bulletin of Marine Science 83(2): 391-399.

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