Aiteng

Aiteng
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Acochlidiacea[1]
clade Hedylopsacea[1]
Family: Aitengidae
Swennen & Buatip, 2009[2]
Genus: Aiteng
Swennen & Buatip, 2009[2]
Diversity
2 species

Aiteng is a genus of sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs.[2] Aiteng is the only genus in the family Aitengidae.[2] The generic name Aiteng is derived from the name of a black puppet Ai Theng, which is one of the shadow play (Nang yai) puppets in southern Thailand.[2]

Taxonomy

Swennen & Buatip (2009)[2] tentatively classified Aitengidae within the Sacoglossa,[2] but they noted that some characteristics of the nervous system are similar to those of the Cephalaspidea and Acochlidioidea (mentioned as Acochlidea).[2]

Aitengidae clusters within the Hedylopsacea as sister group to Pseudunelidae and Acochlidiidae or basal within Hedylopsacea.[1] Philippe Bouchet (2010)[3] classified Aitengidae within the superfamily Hedylopsoidea.[3]

Species

Species in the genus Aiteng include:

Distribution

The distribution of Aiteng ater includes Thailand.[2] The distribution of Aiteng mysticus includes Japan.[1]

Ecology

Aiteng ater lives "amphibiously" in mangrove forests in the intertidal zone, on the mud.[2]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from the reference.[1]

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-323 PMID 20973994.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Swennen C. & Buatip S. "Aiteng ater, new genus, new species, an amphibious and insectivorous sea slug that is difficult to classify [Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa(?): Aitengidae, new family]". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57(2): 495–500. PDF.
  3. 1 2 Philippe Bouchet (2011). "Aitengidae". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  4. Timea P. Neusser, Hiroshi Fukuda, Katharina M. Jörger, Yasunori Kano & Michael Schrödl (2011). "Sacoglossa or Acochlidia? 3D-reconstruction, molecular phylogeny and evolution of Aiteng ater and Aiteng mysticus n. sp. (Aitengidae, Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (4): 332–350. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr033.
  5. Timea P. Neusser, Katharina M. Jörger & Michael Schrödl (2011). "Cryptic species in tropic sands – interactive 3D anatomy, molecular phylogeny and evolution of meiofaunal Pseudunelidae (Gastropoda, Acochlidia)". PLoS ONE 6 (8): e23313. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023313. PMC 3166138. PMID 21912592.
  6. Kano, Yasunori; Neusser, Timea P.; Fukumori, Hiroaki; Jörger, Katharina M.; Schrödl, Michael (2015). "Sea-slug invasion of the land". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 116 (2): 253. doi:10.1111/bij.12578.

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