Diaulula

Diaulula

A pair of Diaulula sandiegensis mating.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily:	Doridoidea
Family:	Discodorididae
Genus:	Diaulula Bergh, 1878^[1]
Synonyms
Anisodoris Bergh, 1898 Ansiodoris [sic] (misspelling)

Diaulula is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Discodorididae.

Species

Species in the genus Diaulula include:

Diaulula alba (K. White, 1952)
Diaulula aurila (Ev. & Er. Marcus, 1967)^[2]
Diaulula cerebralis Valdes, 2001
Diaulula farmersi Valdés, 2004
Diaulula flindersi (Burn, 1962)
Diaulula greeleyi (MacFarland, 1909)^[2]
Diaulula hispida (d'Orbigny, 1837)
Diaulula immaculata Valdes, 2001
Diaulula lentiginosa (Millen, 1982)
Diaulula nayarita (Ortea & Llera, 1981)
Diaulula nivosa Valdés & Bertsch, 2010
Diaulula phoca (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
Diaulula punctuolata (d'Orbigny, 1837)
Diaulula sandiegensis (J. G. Cooper, 1863)
Diaulula variolata (d'Orbigny, 1837)

Species brought into synonymy

Diaulula gigantea Bergh, 1905: synonym of Sebadoris nubilosa (Pease, 1871)
Diaulula hummelincki (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963) : synonym of Discodoris hummelincki (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963) synonym of as Tayuva lilacina (Gould, 1852)
Diaulula nobilis (MacFarland, 1905): synonym of Montereina nobilis MacFarland, 1905: synonym of Peltodoris nobilis (MacFarland, 1905)

References

↑ Bergh R. (1878). In: Semper, Reis. Philipp. (2)2(Heft 13): 567.
1 2 Camacho-García Y. & Valdés A. (2003). "Caryophyllidia-bearing dorid nudibranchs (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Doridacea) from Costa Rica". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 54: 65-79. PDF.

Valdés Á. (2002). A phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of the cryptobranch dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Anthobranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 136: 535-636.

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