Costasiella

Costasiella
Costasiella kuroshimae on Avrainvillea erecta. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 1 cm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
clade Plakobranchacea

Superfamily: Limapontioidea
Family: Costasiellidae
Genus: Costasiella
Pruvot-Fol, 1951[1]
Type species
Costasiella virescens Pruvot-Fol, 1951

Costasiella is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Costasiellidae.[2]

The most recent diagnosis of the genus Costasiella is by the Dutch malacologist Cornelis Kees Swennen (2007).[3]

Species

There are 16 species in the genus Costasiella[3]

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. (French) Pruvot-Fol A. (1951). "Étude des nudibranches de la Méditerranée". Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale 88(1): 73.
  2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Costasiella Pruvot-Fol, 1951. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137845 on 2015-01-17
  3. 1 2 3 4 Swennen C. (31 August 2007). "Costasiella coronata, new species, and a revised diagnosis for the Family Costasiellidae (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2) Archived July 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.: 355-362. PDF
  4. Clark K. B. (1984). "New records and synonymies of Bermuda Opisthobranchs (Gastropoda)". The Nautilus 98: 85–97.
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