Cratena
| Cratena | |
|---|---|
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| Cratena capensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Aeolidioidea |
| Family: | Facelinidae |
| Subfamily: | Crateninae |
| Genus: | Cratena Bergh, 1864 |
| Type species | |
| Doris peregrina Gmelin, 1791 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Rizzolia Trinchese, 1877 | |
Cratena is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Facelinidae. [1]
Cratena is the type genus of the subfamily Crateninae.
Species
Species within the genus Cratena include:
- Cratena affinis (Baba, 1949)
- Cratena capensis Barnard, 1927 - orange-eyed nudibranch
- Cratena lineata Eliot, 1905
- Cratena peregrina (Gmelin, 1791)
- Cratena pilata (Gould, 1870)
- Cratena piutaensis Ortea, Caballer & Espinosa, 2003
- Cratena scintilla Ortea & Moro, 1998
- Cratena simba Edmunds, 1970
- Species brought into synonymy
- Cratena anulata Baba, 1949: synonym of Cuthona anulata (Baba, 1949)
- Cratena cavanca Bergh, 1898: synonym of Phidiana lottini (Lesson, 1831)
- Cratena exigua Thiele, 1912: synonym of Cuthona georgiana (Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886)
- Cratena lugubris Bergh, 1870: synonym of Phestilla lugubris (Bergh, 1870)
- Cratena macphersonae Burn, 1962: synonym of Phyllodesmium macphersonae (Burn, 1962)
- Cratena pusilla Bergh, 1898: synonym of Cuthona pusilla (Bergh, 1898)
- Cratena valentini Eliot, 1907: synonym of Cuthona valentini (Eliot, 1907)
- Cratena kaoruae Marcus, 1957: synonym of Cratena pilata (Gould, 1870)[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bouchet, P. (2012). Cratena. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146861 on 2012-07-22
- ↑ Marcus, E. du B.-R. 1957: Notes on some opisthobranch gastropods from the Chesapeake Bay. Chesapeake science, 13(4): 300-317. doi:10.2307/1351113 JSTOR
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