Knoutsodonta
| Knoutsodonta | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Onchidoridoidea |
| Family: | Onchidorididae |
| Genus: | Knoutsodonta Hallas & Gosliner, 2015[1] |
| Type species | |
| Adalaria jannae Millen, 1987 | |
Knoutsodonta is a genus of dorid nudibranchs in the family Onchidorididae.[2] The radular teeth are an unusual shape[3] and a molecular phylogeny study showed that they are not closely related to some other species of Onchidoris within which genus they were formerly placed.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Knoutsodonta include: [2]
- Knoutsodonta brasiliensis (Alvim, Padula & Pimenta, 2011)
- Knoutsodonta depressa (Alder & Hancock, 1842)
- Knoutsodonta jannae (Millen, 1987) - type species
- Knoutsodonta oblonga (Alder & Hancock, 1845)
References
- 1 2 Hallas J.M. & Gosliner T.M. (2015). Family matters: The first molecular phylogeny of the Onchidorididae Gray, 1827 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 88: 16-27, page(s): 25
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2015). Knoutsodonta Hallas & Gosliner, 2015. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-14.
- ↑ Alvim, J.; Padula, V.; Pimenta, A. D. (2011). "First record of the genus Onchidoris (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Onchidorididae) from the South Atlantic Ocean, with the description of a new species from Brazil". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91 (2): 505–511. doi:10.1017/S002531541000202X.
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