Ceratophyllidia

Ceratophyllidia
Ceratophyllidia
Ceratophyllidia papilligera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura

clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea
Superfamily: Phyllidioidea
Family: Phyllidiidae
Genus: Ceratophyllidia
Eliot, 1903[1]

Ceratophyllidia is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Phyllidiidae.

They are known for their unusually soft, spherical and stalked tubercules on their upper dorsums. Unlike the species of Phyllidia, they lack oral glands or the glands are free from the oral tube.

Species

Species in the genus Ceratophyllidia include:

References

  1. ^ Eliot C. (1903). Proc. zool. Soc. London 1903(1): 250.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2010). Ceratophyllidia africana Eliot, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536730 on 2010-12-28
  3. ^ Bouchet, P. (2010). Ceratophyllidia papilligera (Bergh, 1890). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420610 on 2010-12-28

Further reading

  • Brunckhorst D. J. (1993) "The systematics and phylogeny of phyllidiid nudibranchs (Doridoidea)". Records of the Australian Museum suppl. 16: 1-108.
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