Facelina

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Facelina
A live individual of Facelina auriculata, in situ
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
Family: Facelinidae
Subfamily: Facelininae
Genus: Facelina
Alder & Hancock, 1855[1]
Synonyms
  • Hervia Bergh, 1871
  • Muessa Er. Marcus, 1965

Facelina is a genus of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch in the family Facelinidae. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Facelina include:

  • Facelina agari Smallwood, 1910
  • Facelina annulicornis (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821)
  • Facelina auriculata (Müller, 1776) - synonyms: Facelina coronata[3]
  • Facelina bilineata Hirano & Ito, 1998
  • Facelina bostoniensis (Couthouy, 1838)
  • Facelina coenda Er. Marcus, 1958
  • Facelina dubia (Pruvot-Fol, 1948)
  • Facelina fusca http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139911
  • Facelina goslingii A. E. Verrill, 1901
  • Facelina hartleyi Burn, 1962
  • Facelina lugubris (Bergh, 1882)
  • Facelina newcombi (Angas, 1864)
  • Facelina olivacea[4]
  • Facelina quadrilineata (Baba, 1930)
  • Facelina quatrefagesi Vayssière, 1888
  • Facelina rhodopos Yonow, 2000
  • Facelina rubrovittata (Costa A., 1866)
  • Facelina rutila Pruvot-Fol, 1951
  • Facelina variegata d'Oliveira, 1895
  • Facelina vicina (Bergh, 1882)
  • Facelina zhejiangensis Lin & You, 1990
Species brought into synonymy
  • Facelina coronata (Forbes & Goodsir, 1839): synonym of Facelina auriculata (Müller, 1776)
  • Facelina lineata Eliot, 1905: synonym of Cratena lineata (Eliot, 1905)
  • Facelina marioni Vayssière, 1888: synonym of Facelinopsis marioni (Vayssière, 1888)
  • Facelina plumosa (Fleming, 1828): synonym of Facelina auriculata (Müller, 1776)
  • Facelina stearnsi: synonym of Austraeolis stearnsi (Cockerell, 1901)

References

  1. ↑ Alder & Hancock (1855). Monogr. Brit. nudibr. Moll., pt. 7, App., xxii.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Facelina Alder & Hancock, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137997 on 2012-07-23
  3. ↑ Picton B. (22 July 2001). "Facelina coronata or F. auriculata?" Sea Slug Forum, accessed 28 February 2010.
  4. ↑ Gosliner, T.M. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa ISBN 0-930118-13-8
  • SEM images of its radula can be found at Thompson; Bebbington (1973). Malacologia 14: 147–165. .
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
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