Coryphella

Coryphella
Coryphella albomarginata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
Superfamily: Flabellinoidea
Family: Flabellinidae
Genus: Coryphella
M.E. Gray, 1850

Coryphella is a genus of very small sea slugs, specifically aolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Flabellinidae. Some species that were previously grouped in this genus have been moved to the genus Flabellina.

Species

Species within the genus Coryphella include: [1]

  • Coryphella athadona
  • Coryphella californica
  • Coryphella gracilis
  • Coryphella lineata
  • Coryphella nobilis
  • Coryphella pedata
  • Coryphella polaris
  • Coryphella salmonacea


Synonyms:

  • Coryphella borealis accepted as Flabellina borealis
  • Coryphella browni accepted as Flabellina brown
  • Coryphella falklandica accepted as Flabellina falklandica
  • Coryphella parva accepted as Flabellina parka
  • Coryphella pellucida accepted as Flabellina pellucida
  • Coryphella sarsi accepted as Flabellina sarsi
  • Coryphella verrucosa accepted as Flabellina verrucosa


References

  1. ^ Miller M. C. (1971). "Aeolid nudibranchs (Gastropoda:Opisthobranchia) of the families Flabellinidae and Eubranchidae from New Zealand waters". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 50(4): 311-337. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1971.tb00766.x


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