Tergipes
| Tergipes | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Heterobranchia |
| Clade: | Euthyneura |
| Clade: | Nudipleura |
| Clade: | Nudibranchia |
| Clade: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Tergipedidae |
| Genus: | Tergipes Cuvier, 1805[1] |
Tergipes is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tergipedidae.[2] Tergipes is the type genus of the family Tergipedidae.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Tergipes include:
- Tergipes antarcticus Pelseneer, 1903
- Tergipes edwardsii Nordmann, 1844
- Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Species names currently considered to be synonyms:
- Tergipes adspersus Nordmann, 1845 synonym of Tenellia adspersa (Nordmann, 1845)
- Tergipes affinis d'Orbigny, 1837 synonym of Doto affinis (d'Orbigny, 1837)
- Tergipes capellinii Trinchese, 1879 synonym of Eubranchus capellinii (Trinchese, 1879)
- Tergipes despectus (Johnston, 1835) synonym of Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
- Tergipes doriae (Trinchese, 1874) synonym of Eubranchus doriae (Trinchese, 1874)
- Tergipes fustifer Lovén, 1846 synonym of Eubranchus exiguus (Alder & Hancock, 1848)
- Tergipes lacinulatus de Blainville, 1824 synonym of Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
- Tergipes lacinulatus (Gmelin, 1791) synonym of Doris lacinulata Gmelin, 1791
- Tergipes pulcher Johnston, 1834 synonym of Limacia clavigera (O. F. Müller, 1776)
- Tergipes rupium Møller, 1842 synonym of Eubranchus rupium (Møller, 1842)
- Tergipes valentini (Eliot, 1907) synonym of Cuthona valentini [4]
Ecology
Species of Tergipes feed on hydroids, as reflected by the serrated radula.[5] A recent study showed that Tergipes tergipes is an amphi-atlantic species.[6]
References
- ↑ Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. (1805). Mémoire sur la Scyllee, l'Eolide et le Glaucus, avec des additions au mémoire sur la Tritonie. Annales de Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6:416-436, pl. 61.
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Tergipes Cuvier, 1805. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138546 on 2014-12-10
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Schrödl, M. 2003. Sea slugs of southern South America. ConchBooks, Hackenheim.
- ↑ Walter J. Lambert (1991). "Coexistence of hydroid eating nudibranchs: do feeding biology and habitat use matter?". Biological Bulletin 181 (2): 248–260. doi:10.2307/1542096.
- ↑ Cámara, S., Carmona, L., Cella, K., Ekimova, I., Martynov, A., & Cervera, J. L., (2014). Tergipes tergipes (Förskal, 1775) (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) is an amphiatlantic species. Journal of Molluscan Studies (2014) 80: 642–646. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyu015
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