Aegires
| Aegires | |
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| A live individual of the knobbly nudibranch, Aegires ninguis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Polyceroidea |
| Family: | Aegiridae P. Fischer, 1883 |
| Genus: | Aegires Lovén, 1844[1] |
| Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Aegires is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aegiridae. Members of the species in this genus feed exclusively on calcareous sponges.[2][4] Images of the radula can be seen in this reference.[5]
Aegires is the type genus and the only genus in the family Aegiridae.[3]
Species
Species in the genus Aegires include:[6][7]
- Aegires absalaoi Garcia, Troncoso & Dominguez, 2002
- Aegires albopunctatus MacFarland, 1905
- Aegires albus Thiele, 1912
- Aegires citrinus (Bergh, 1875)
- Aegires exeches Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[3]
- Aegires flores Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[3]
- Aegires gardineri (Eliot, 1906)
- Aegires gomezi Ortea, Luque & Templado, 1990
- Aegires hapsis Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[3]
- Aegires incisus (G.O. Sars, 1872)
- Aegires incusus Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[3]
- Aegires lemoncello Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[3]
- Aegires leuckarti Vérany, 1853
- Aegires malinus Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[3]
- Aegires minor (Eliot, 1904)
- Aegires ninguis Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[3]
- Aegires ortizi Templado, Luque & Ortea, 1987
- Aegires palensis Ortea, Luque & Templado, 1990
- Aegires petalis Fahey & Gosliner, 2004[3]
- Aegires pruvotfolae Fahey & Gosliner, 2004
- Aegires punctilucens (d'Orbigny, 1837)
- Aegires serenae (Gosliner & Behrens, 1997)
- Aegires sublaevis Odhner, 1932
- Aegires villosus Farran, 1905
- Species brought into synonymy
- Aegires citrinus Pruvot-Fol, 1930: synonym of Aegires pruvotfolae Fahey & Gosliner, 2004
- Aegires hispidus Hesse, 1872: synonym of Aegires punctilucens (d'Orbigny, 1837)
- Aegires protectus Odhner, 1934: synonym of Aegires albus Thiele, 1912
References
- ↑ Lovén S. L. (1844). Ofvers. K. Vet. Acad. Förh. 1(3): 49.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Fahey S. J. & Gosliner T. M. (2004). "A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Aegiridae Fischer, 1883 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Phanerobranchia) with Descriptions of Eight New Species and a Reassessment of Phanerobranch Relationships". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 55(34): 613-689. PDF.
- ↑ Vietti RC, Balduzzi A (1991). "Relationship between radular morphology and food in the Doridina (Mollusca: Nudibranchia). Malacologia 32(2)". pp. 211–217.
- ↑ "Faunistic and anatomical data on the Antarctic Opisthobranchia (Mollusca Gastropoda) in the collections of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences". Biologie 66: 29–40. 1996. and Wägele, H. (1987). "Redescription and anatomy of Aegires (Anaegires) albus Thiele, 1912 (Opisthobranchia, Doridacea) and synonymy with A. Protectus Odhner, 1934". Polar Biology 7 (5): 267–272. doi:10.1007/BF00443944.
- ↑ WoRMS: Aegires World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 28 September 2013
- ↑ WoRMS taxon details: Aegires Lovén, 1844.
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