Polycera
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| Polycera | |
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| Anterior view of a live individual of Polycera abei, in situ | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Polyceroidea |
| Family: | Polyceridae |
| Subfamily: | Polycerinae |
| Genus: | Polycera Cuvier, 1817 |
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Polyceras Locard, 1886 (Unjustified emendation) | |
Polycera is a genus of sea slugs, specifically nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Polyceridae.
Polycera is the type genus of the family Polyceridae.
Species
Species in the genus Polycera include:
- Polycera abei (Baba, 1960) - originally described by Baba as Greilada abei[1]
- Polycera atra MacFarland, 1905 orange-spike polycera
- Polycera aurantiomarginata García Gómez & Bobo, 1984
- Polycera aurisula Er. Marcus, 1957
- Polycera capensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
- Polycera chilluna Er. Marcus, 1961 harlequin
- Polycera dubia M. Sars, 1829 : synonym of Palio dubia (M. Sars, 1829)
- Polycera faeroensis Lemche, 1929
- Polycera hedgpethi Er. Marcus, 1964 - synonym: Polycera grupa Marcus and Marcus, 1967
- Polycera hummi Abbott, 1952
- Polycera incognita (Ortea, Espinosa, & Caballer, 2005)
- Polycera janjukia Burn, 1962
- Polycera kaiserae Hermosillo & Valdés, 2007 [2]
- Polycera maculata Pruvot-Fol, 1951
- Polycera maddoxi Miller, 2005
- Polycera manzanilloensis Ortea, Espinosa & Caballer, 1999
- Polycera odhneri Er. Marcus, 1955
- Polycera quadrilineata Muller, 1776 - synonyms: Polycera lineatus Risso, 1826, Polycera ornata d' Orbigny, 1837
- Polycera rycia Er. Marcus and Ev. Marcus, 1970
- Polycera sp. twin-crowned nudibranch[3]
- Polycera tricolor Robilliard, 1971 three-color polycera
- Polycera zosterae O'Donoghue, 1924 eelgrass polycera
A drawing of Polycera faeroensis on a 2002 Faroe Islands stamp designed by Astrid Andreasen and published by Postverk Føroya
References
- ↑ Baba, Kikutaro. 1960. The genera Polycera, Palio, Greilada and Thecacera from Japan (Nudibranchia-Polyceridae). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 8(1):75-78, pl. 6.
- ↑ WoRMS : Polycera; accessed : 30 September 2010
- ↑ GOSLINER, T.M. 1987. Nudibranchs of Southern Africa ISBN 0-930118-13-8
- 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
External links
- Polycera hedgpethi
- SEM images of its radula can be found at Thompson; Bebbington (1973). Malacologia 14: 147–165..
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