Phestilla

Phestilla
An orange individual of Phestilla melanobrachia, head end towards the left
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Fionidae
Genus: Phestilla
Bergh, 1874

Phestilla was a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tergipedidae. It is currently accepted as a synonym of Tenellia.[1] This genus has been investigated using DNA phylogeny and undescribed species exist.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Phestilla included:[3]

Species names currently considered to be synonyms:

References

  1. Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, L.; Ekimova, I; Chichvarkhin, A; Schepetov, D; Gosliner, T. M. (2016). A radical solution: The phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae. PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0167800.
  2. 1 2 Faucci, A., Robert J. Toonen, & Michael G. Hadfield, (2007). Host shift and speciation in a coralfeeding nudibranch. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B Biological Sciences 274(1606):111-119.
  3. Bouchet, P.; Bieler, R. (2016). Phestilla Bergh, 1874. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-27.
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