''Dermatobranchus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
sea slug
Sea slug is a common name for some Marine biology, marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial Slug, slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are Sea snail, sea snails (marine gastropod moll ...
s, or
nudibranch
Nudibranchs () are a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs, belonging to the order Nudibranchia, that shed their shells after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colours and striking forms, and they have b ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s in the family
Arminidae
Arminidae is a family (biology), family of sea slugs, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arminoidea.
Taxonomy
The family Arminidae is classified within the clade Cladobranchia, itself belonging to the clade Nudibranch ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2011)]
''Dermatobranchus'' van Hasselt, 1824.
Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-04-15
Biology
''Dermatobranchus'' species feed on
octocorals
Octocorallia, along with Hexacorallia, is one of the two extant classes of Anthozoa. It comprises over 3,000 species of marine and brackish animals consisting of colonial polyps with 8-fold symmetry, commonly referred informally as "soft cora ...
including
sea fans
Alcyonacea is the old scientific order name for the informal group known as "soft corals". It is now an unaccepted name for class Octocorallia. It became deprecated .
The following text should be considered a historical, outdated way of treating ...
and
sea pen
Sea pens are marine cnidarians belonging to the superfamily Pennatuloidea, which are colony-forming benthic filter feeders within the order Scleralcyonacea. There are 14 families within the order and 35 extant genera, and it is estimated a ...
s.
Species
Species within the genus ''Dermatobranchus'' include:
* ''
Dermatobranchus albineus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus albopunctulatus''
Baba, 1949
* ''
Dermatobranchus albus''
(Eliot, 1904)
* ''
Dermatobranchus arminus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus caeruleomaculatus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus caesitius''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus cymatilis''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus dendronephthyphagus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus diagonalis''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus earlei''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus fasciatus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus fortunatus''
(Bergh, 1888)
* ''
Dermatobranchus funiculus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus glaber''
(Eliot, 1908)
* ''
Dermatobranchus gonatophorus''
van Hasselt, 1824
* ''
Dermatobranchus kalyptos''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus kokonas
''Dermatobranchus kokonas'' is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae
Arminidae is a family (biology), family of sea slugs, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arminoid ...
''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus leoni''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus marginlatus''
Lin, 1981
* ''
Dermatobranchus microphallus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus multidentatus''
Baba, 1949
* ''
Dermatobranchus multistriatus''
Lin, 1981
* ''
Dermatobranchus nigropunctatus''
Baba, 1949
* ''
Dermatobranchus oculus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus ornatus''
(Bergh, 1874)
* ''
Dermatobranchus otome''
Baba, 1992
* ''
Dermatobranchus phyllodes''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus piperoides''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus primus''
Baba, 1976
* ''
Dermatobranchus pustulosus''
van Hasselt, 1824
* ''
Dermatobranchus rodmani''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus sagamianus''
Baba, 1949
* ''
Dermatobranchus semilunus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
* ''
Dermatobranchus semistriatus''
Baba, 1949
* ''Dermatobranchus'' sp. 1
white-ridged nudibranch[Gosliner, T.M. 1987. ''Nudibranchs of Southern Africa'' ]
* ''Dermatobranchus'' sp. 4
brown ridged nudibranch
* ''
Dermatobranchus striatellus''
Baba, 1949
* ''
Dermatobranchus striatus''
van Hasselt, 1824
* ''
Dermatobranchus substriatus''
Baba, 1949
* ''
Dermatobranchus tongshanensis''
Lin, 1981
* ''
Dermatobranchus tuberculatus''
Gosliner & Fahey, 2011
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Dermatobranchus (Pleuroleura) tongshanensis''
G.Y. Lin, 1981: synonym of ''
Dermatobranchus tongshanensis''
G.Y. Lin, 1981
* ''Dermatobranchus pulcherrimus''
Miller & Willan, 1986: synonym of ''
Dermatobranchus rubidus''
(Gould, 1852)
* ''Dermatobranchus rubidus''
(Gould, 1852); synonym of ''
Armina rubida
''Armina rubida'' is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Arminidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Armina rubida (A. Gould, 1852). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://w ...
''
(A. Gould, 1852) (superseded combination)
* ''Dermatobranchus walteri''
(Krause, 1892): synonym of ''
Doridoxa walteri
Doridoxidae, commonly known as doridoxid nudibranchs, are a small, enigmatic taxonomic family of shell-less sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Cladobranchia within the clade Nudibranchia.
Doridoxidae is currently the only fami ...
'' (Krause, 1892)
References
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External links
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