Noumea (gastropod)
| Noumea | |
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| A live individual of Noumea romeri, in situ, head end towards the lower left | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Noumea Risbec, 1928[1] |
| Type species | |
| Noumea romeri Risbec, 1928 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Verconia Pruvot-Fol, 1931 | |
Noumea is a genus of colorful sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae.[2]
Species
Species in the genus Noumea include:[3]
- Noumea alboannulata Rudman, 1986
- Noumea aureopunctata Rudman, 1987
- Noumea catalai Rudman, 1990
- Noumea closeorum Rudman, 1986 - synonym: Noumea closei Rudman, 1986
- Noumea decussata Risbec, 1928
- Noumea flava Eliot, 1904
- Noumea haliclona Burn, 1957 - synonyms: Noumea cameroni Burn, 1966; Noumea margaretae Burn, 1966
- Noumea hongkongensis Rudman, 1990
- Noumea laboutei Rudman, 1986
- Noumea nivalis Baba, 1937
- Noumea norba Marcus & Marcus, 1970
- Noumea protea Gosliner, 1994[4]
- Noumea purpurea Baba, 1949
- Noumea romeri Risbec, 1928 - type species
- Noumea simplex Pease, 1871
- Noumea spencerensis Rudman, 1987
- Noumea subnivalis Baba, 1987
- Noumea sudanica Rudman, 1985
- Noumea varians Pease, 1871
- Noumea verconiforma Rudman, 1995
- Noumea verconis (Basedow & Hedley, 1905)
- Species brought into synonymy:
- Noumea angustolutea Rudman, 1990: synonym of Ardeadoris angustolutea (Rudman, 1990)
- Noumea cameroni Burn, 1966: synonym of Noumea haliclona (Burn, 1957)
- Noumea closei Rudman, 1986: synonym of Noumea closeorum Rudman, 1986
- Noumea crocea Rudman, 1986: synonym of Diversidoris crocea (Rudman, 1986)
- Noumea flava (Eliot, 1904): synonym of Diversidoris flava (Eliot, 1904)
- Noumea margaretae Burn, 1966: synonym of Noumea haliclona (Burn, 1957)
- Noumea regalis Ortea, Caballer & Moro, 2001: synonym of Chromodoris regalis (Ortea, Caballer & Moro, 2001)
- Noumea sulphurea Rudman, 1986: synonym of Diversidoris sulphurea (Rudman, 1986)
- Noumea violacea Risbec, 1930: synonym of Hallaxa indecora (Bergh, 1905)
References
- ↑ Risbec (1928). Faune Colonies franç., 2, fasc. 1: 165.
- ↑ Caballer, M.; Bouchet, P. (2011). Noumea Risbec, 1928. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206191 on 22 April 2012
- ↑ http://www.seaslugforum.net/search.cfm?searchstring=Noumea
- ↑ Gosliner T. M. (1994). "New species of Chromodoris and Noumea (Nudibranch: Chromodorididae) from the Western Indian Ocean and Southern Africa". Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 12 48:239-252
Further reading
- Rudman W. B. (1984). "The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: a review of the genera". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 81(2/3): 115-273. pages: 137.
- Rudman W.B. (1988). The Chromodorididae (Ophistobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: the genus Ceratosoma J.E. Gray. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93 (1): 133-185. page(s): 181
- Rudman W. B. & Darvell B. W. (1990). "Opisthobranch molluscs of Hong Kong: Part 1. Goniodorididae, Onchidorididae, Triophidae, Gymnodorididae, Chromodorididae (Nudibranchia)". Asian Marine Biology 7: 31-79. pages: 54.
- Rudman W. B. (1990). "The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: further species of Glossodoris, Thorunna and the Chromodoris aureomarginata colour group". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 100: 263-326. pages: 295, 298.
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