Trapania

Trapania
A live individual of Trapania maculata, in situ, head towards the bottom of the image
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Goniodorididae
Genus: Trapania
Pruvot-Fol, 1931[1]

Trapania is a genus of sea slugs, specifically dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Goniodorididae.

A live Trapania armilla, head end towards the left

Description

The genus Trapania is distinguished from other goniodorid nudibranchs by the possession of two pairs of lateral papillae which arise from the remnant of the pallial margin and curve backwards parallel with the main body axis. One pair arises just outside the rhinophores and the other just outside the gill cluster. A pair of prominent oral tentacles are attached to the front of the head.

Species

Species within the genus Trapania include:[2]

References

  1. Pruvot-Fol A. (1931). Bull. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris (2)3: 309.
  2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Trapania Pruvot-Fol, 1931. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138043 on 2014-11-02
  3. Edmunds M. (2009) "Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Ghana: Goniodorididae". Journal of Conchology 40(1): 37-54. abstract.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 Gosliner, T.M. & Fahey, S.H. (2008) Systematics of Trapania (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) with descriptions of 16 new species Systematics and Biodiversity, 6 (1): 53-98 doi=10.1017/s1477200007002587
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Rudman,W.B.(1987). The genus Trapania (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 53: 189-212. doi=10.1093/mollus/53.2.189
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