Thorunna
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| A live individual of Thorunna furtiva, head end towards the right and turned towards the camera | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Thorunna Bergh, 1878[1] |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Thorunna is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae. [2]
Species
Species in the genus Thorunna include:[3]
- Thorunna africana Rudman, 1984
- Thorunna arbuta (Burn, 1961)
- Thorunna australis Risbec, 1928
- Thorunna daniellae Kay & Young, 1969
- Thorunna florens Baba, 1949
- Thorunna furtiva Bergh, 1878
- Thorunna halourga Johnson & Gosliner, 2001
- Thorunna horologia Rudman, 1984
- Thorunna kahuna Johnson & Gosliner, 2001
- Thorunna montrouzieri Rudman, 1995
- Thorunna perplexa (Burn, 1957)
- Thorunna punicea Rudman, 1995
- Thorunna purpuropedis Rudman & Johnson, 1985
- Thorunna speciosus Rudman, 1990
- Thorunna talaverai Ortea, Bacallado & Valdés, 1992
- Species brought into synonymy
- Thorunna lapislazuli Bertsch & Ferreira, 1974: synonym of Felimare lapislazuli (Bertsch & Ferreira, 1974)
- Thorunna scottjohnsoni (Bertsch & Gosliner, 1989): synonym of Ardeadoris scottjohnsoni Bertsch & Gosliner, 1989
- Thorunna tura (Marcus & Marcus, 1967): synonym of Mexichromis tura (Marcus & Marcus, 1967)
References
- ↑ Bergh R. (1878). In: Semper. Reis. Arch. Philipp. 2(2), Heft 13: 575.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Caballer, M.; Gofas, S. (2011). Thorunna Bergh, 1878. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456530 on 2012-05-28
- ↑ http://www.seaslugforum.net/search.cfm?searchstring=Thorunna
- 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. page(s): 216
- Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479
Further reading
- 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(3): 263-326. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1990.tb01864.x.
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