Felimare

<i>Felimare</i>

Felimare

Genus of gastropods


Felimare is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Miamirinae of the family Chromodorididae.[1]

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Taxonomic history

Felimare was described by Eveline & Ernst Marcus in 1967 but treated as a synonym of Hypselodoris until 2012 when it was brought back into use for an eastern Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean clade revealed by molecular (DNA) techniques.[2]

Species

Species brought into synonymy
  • Felimare ghiselini (Bertsch, 1978): synonym of Felimare californiensis (Bergh, 1879)
  • Felimare midatlantica (Gosliner, 1990): synonym of Felimare tricolor (Cantraine, 1835)
  • Felimare verdensis (Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996): synonym of Felimare tema (Edmunds, 1981)

References

  1. Bouchet, P.; Caballer, M. (2012). Felimare. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-05-01
  2. Ortigosa D., Pola M., Cervera J. L. (2017). "A new Felimare (Mollusca: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia) of the Atlantic blue chromodorid chromatic group from Cape Verde". Scientia Marina 81(3): 387-394. doi:10.3989/scimar.04594.16A.



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