''Felimare'' is a
genus
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of
sea slug
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s, dorid
nudibranch
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s, shell-less
marine gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
molluscs in the subfamily Miamirinae of the family Chromodorididae.
[Bouchet, P.; Caballer, M. (2012)]
''Felimare''.
Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-05-01
Taxonomic history
''Felimare'' was described by Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, Eveline & Ernst Marcus (zoologist), 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 phylogeny, molecular (DNA) techniques.
Species
* ''Felimare acriba''
(Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
* ''Felimare agassizii''
(Bergh, 1894)
* ''Felimare alaini''
(Ortea, Espinosa & Buske, 2013)
* ''Felimare amalguae''
(Gosliner & Bertsch, 1988)
* ''Felimare aurantimaculata''
Ortigosa, Pola & Cervera, 2017
* ''Felimare bayeri''
Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967
* ''Felimare bilineata''
(Pruvot-Fol, 1953)
* ''Felimare californiensis''
(Bergh, 1879)
* ''Felimare cantabrica''
(Bouchet & Ortea, 1980)
* ''Felimare ciminoi''
(Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
* ''Felimare espinosai''
(Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
* ''Felimare fontandraui''
(Pruvot-Fol, 1951)
* ''Felimare fortunensis''
(Ortea, Espinosa & Buske, 2013)
* ''Felimare francoisae''
(Bouchet, 1980)
* ''Felimare fregona''
(Ortea & Caballer, 2013)
* ''Felimare garciagomezi''
(Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
* ''Felimare gasconi''
(Ortea, 1996)
* ''Felimare gofasi''
(Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
* ''Felimare juliae''
(DaCosta, Padula & Schrödl, 2010)
* ''Felimare kempfi''
(Ev. Marcus, 1971)
* ''Felimare lajensis''
(Troncoso, Garcia & Urgorri, 1998)
* ''Felimare lalique''
(Ortea & Caballer, 2013)
* ''Felimare lapislazuli''
(Bertsch & Ferreira, 1974)
* ''Felimare lilyeveae''
(Alejandrino & Valdés, 2006)
* ''Felimare malacitana''
(Luque, 1986)
* ''Felimare marci''
(Ev. Marcus, 1971)
* ''Felimare molloi''
(Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
* ''Felimare muniainae''
(Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
* ''Felimare nyalya''
(Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
* ''Felimare olgae''
(Ortea & Bacallado, 2007)
* ''Felimare orsinii''
(Vérany, 1846)
* ''Felimare picta''
(Schultz in Philippi, 1836)
** ''Felimare picta azorica''
(Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996)
* ''Felimare pinna''
(Ortea, 1988)
* ''Felimare porterae''
(Cockerell, 1901)
* ''Felimare ruthae''
(Ev. Marcus & Hughes, 1974)
* ''Felimare samueli''
(Caballer & Ortea, 2012)
* ''Felimare sechurana''
Hoover, Padula, Schrödl, Hooker & Valdés, 2017
* ''Felimare sisalensis''
Ortigosa & Valdés, 2012[Ortigosa, D. & Valdés, A., (2015]
''A new species of ''Felimare'' (formerly ''Mexichromis'')(Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Chromodorididae) from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico''.
Nautilus-Sanibel.
* ''Felimare sycilla''
(Bergh, 1890)
* ''Felimare tema''
(Edmunds, 1981)
* ''Felimare tricolor''
(Cantraine, 1835)
* ''Felimare villafranca''
(Risso, 1818)
* ''Felimare xicoi''
(Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
* ''Felimare zebra''
(Heilprin, 1889)
;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)
Gallery
Image:NKN 3186-1.jpg, ''Felimare bilineata''
Image:Nudibrankioa.jpg, ''Felimare cantabrica''
Image:Felimare fontandraui (Pruvot-Fol, 1951), Dysidea fragilis (Montagu, 1818) 1.jpg, ''Felimare fontandraui''
Image:BEP 1457-1.jpg, ''Felimare orsinii''
Image:Regal Sea Goddess Nudibranch.jpg, ''Felimare picta''
Image:BEPBS 5753-1.jpg, ''Felimare lajensis''
Image:BEPBS 5844-1.jpg, ''Felimare marci''
Image:Felimare tricolor (Cantraine, 1835).jpg, ''Felimare tricolor''
Image:Hypselodoris villafranca.JPG, ''Felimare villafranca''
Image:Hypselodoris zebra 001.jpg, ''Felimare zebra''
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q971817
Chromodorididae
Taxa named by Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus
Taxa named by Ernst Marcus (zoologist)
Gastropod genera