Corambe

Corambe
The crazed nudibranch, Corambe sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Euctenidiacea clade Doridacea
Superfamily:	Onchidoridoidea
Family:	Corambidae
Genus:	Corambe Bergh, 1869[1]
Synonyms
Corambella Balch, 1899 Doridella Verrill, 1870 Gulbinia Martynov, 1994 Neocorambe Swennen & R. Dekker, 1995 Paracorambe Swennen & R. Dekker, 1995 Quasicorambe Martynov, 1994 Suhinia Martynov, 1994

Corambe is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in family Corambidae within the superfamily Onchidoridoidea.^{[2] [3]}

Species in this genus show a characteristic posterior notch in the notum (which is lacking in some taxa) and a characteristic gill morphology, especially the presence of ventral gills.

Habitat

These nudibranchs occur in littoral and sublittoral temperate waters of the northern and southern hemispheres.

General description

They are mostly small (between 5 and 10 mm) and rather hard to find because they are very well camouflaged. They prey on encrusting bryozoans.

Corambe pacifica from Santa Cruz, California with egg spirals on bryozoan on giant kelp

Species

Species within the genus Corambe include:

• Corambe burchi (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967)
• Corambe carambola Er. Marcus, 1955
• Corambe evelinae Er. Marcus, 1958
• Corambe lucea Er. Marcus, 1959
• Corambe mancorensis Martynov, Brenzinger, Hooker & Schrödl, 2011
• Corambe obscura (A. E. Verrill, 1870)
• Corambe pacifica MacFarland & O'Donoghue, 1929
• Corambe sp. crazed nudibranch^[4]
• Corambe steinbergae (Lance, 1962) (synonym of Doridella steinbergae (Lance, 1962) )
• Corambe testudinaria H. Fischer, 1889

Species synonymised or transferred to other genera

• Corambe baratariae (Harry, 1953) synonym of Corambe obscura
• Corambe batava Kerbert, 1886  : synonym of Corambe obscura (A. E. Verrill, 1870)
• '[Corambe depressa Adams, 1847
• Corambe fusca Adams, 1847
• Corambe sargassicola Bergh, 1871 (type species): synonym of Corambe obscura
• Corambe thompsoni Millen & Nybakken, 1991  : synonym of Loy thompsoni (Millen & Nybakken, 1991)

In 1994 it became a synonym of Psammodoris thompsoni (Millen & Nybakken, 1991) ^[5] and in 1998 synonym of Loy thompsoni (Millen & Nybakken, 1991)^[6]

References

1. Bergh R. (November 1871) Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-K\oniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, Abhandlungen 21: page 1293.
2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2016). Corambe Bergh, 1869. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137839 on 2016-05-21
3. Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
4. Gosliner T. M. (1987) Nudibranchs of Southern Africa. ISBN 0-930118-13-8
5. Martynov, A.V. (1994a). "Materials for the revision of nudibranchiate molluscs of the family Corambidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) Taxonomy. Communication 1". Zoologichesky Zhurnal. 73 (10): 3–14.
6. Vandes, Angel; P. Bouchet (1998). "A blind abyssal Corambidae (Mollusca,Nudibranchia) from the Norwegian Sea, with a reevaluation of the systematics of the family". Sardia. 83 (1): 15–20.

• http://www.catalogueoflife.org accessed 25 August 2009
• Swennen, C.; R. Dekker (1995). "Corambe batava Kerbert, 1886 (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia), an immigrant in the Netherlands, with a revision of the family Corambidae". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 61: 97–107. doi:10.1093/mollus/61.1.97.
• Martynov A. & Schrödl M. (2011) Phylogeny and evolution of corambid nudibranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 585-604.

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