Lophodoris

Lophodoris
Lophodoris danielsseni
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:	Lophodoris (Sars, 1878 = nomen nudum) Odhner, 1922

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

Species

This genus is little studied and there have been only a few observations.

• Lophodoris danielsseni (Friele & Hansen, 1876) (originally described as Goniodoris danielsseni Friele & Hansen, 1876 ) : found in the Norwegian Sea and Southern Greenland.
• Lophodoris scala Marcus & Marcus, 1970 : found only in the neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil where this small nudibranch (2 - 2.5 mm long) was collected from the intertidal burrow (15 – 30 cm deep) of an echiurid worm Lissomyema exilii, feeding on Entoprocts.

References

• Odhner, N. H. 1922. Norwegian opisthobranchiate Mollusca in the collections of the Zoological Museum of Kristiania; Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 60:1-47. [Meddelelser fra Det Zoologiske Museum, Kristiania, Nr. 1].
• Franc, Andre. 1968. Sous-classe des opisthobranches, pp. 608–893. In: E. Fischer, Andre Franc, Micheline Martoja, G. Termier, & H. Termier. Traite de zoologie. Anatomie, systematique, biologie. Tome V, mollusques gasteropodes et scaphopodes (fascicule III), 1083 pp. 1 pl.
• Marcus E, E Marcus. 1970. Opisthobranchs from Curaçao and faunistically related regions. Stud. Fauna Curaçao 33: 1- 129.
• Just, H, & Edmunds, M. 1985. North Atlantic nudibranchs (Mollusca) seen by Henning Lemche, with additional species from the Mediterranean and the north east Pacific. Ophelia Suppl. 2: 1-170

External links

• Sea Slug Forum : Lophodoris danielsseni
• Sea Slug Forum : Lophodoris scala