Asperspina
| Asperspina | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Acochlidiacea clade Microhedylacea |
| Family: | Asperspinidae Rankin, 1979 |
| Genus: | Asperspina Rankin, 1979[1] |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 5 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Asperspina is a genus of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks within the clade Acochlidiacea.
Taxonomy
Asperspinidae has been listed as a synonym of Parhedylidae in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).[3]
Sensu Schrödl & Neusser (2010)[2] is Asperspina is the only genus in the family Asperspinidae.[2] Minicheviellidae is a junior synonym of Asperspinidae.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Asperspina include:
- Asperspina brambelli (Swedmark, 1968)[2]
- Asperspina murmanica (Kudinskaya & Minichev, 1978)[2] - synonym: Minicheviella murmanica (Kuchinskaja & Minichev, 1978)
- Asperspina rhopalotecta Salvini-Plawen, 1973[2]
- Asperspina loricata (Swedmark, 1968)[2]
- Asperspina riseri (Morse, 1976)[2]
References
- ↑ Rankin (1979). Life Sci. Contr. R. Ont. Mus. 116: 103.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 124-154. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00544.x.
- ↑ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
Further reading
- "Heartless and primitive? 3D reconstruction of the polar acochlidian gastropod Asperspina murmanica". doi:10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00342.x
- Hochberg R. (2007). "Serotonin-like Immunoreactivity in the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems of the Interstitial Acochlidean Asperspina sp. (Opisthobranchia)". Biological Bulletin 213: 43-54. HTM.
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