Atagema

Atagema
Atagema rugosa on the Atlantic Coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Atagema
Gray, 1850[1]
Synonyms
  • Glossodoridiformia O'Donoghue, 1927[2]
  • Petelodoris Bergh, 1882[2]
  • Phlegmodoris Bergh, 1878[2]
  • Trippa Bergh, 1877[2]

Atagema is a genus of sea slugs, specifically dorid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Discodorididae.[3]

Species

Species so far described in this genus include:[3]

Species inquerendum
  • Atagema africana Pruvot-Fol, 1953
synonyms
  • Atagema hispida (d'Orbigny, 1834): synonym of Diaulula hispida (d'Orbigny, 1834)
  • Atagema prea (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967) is a synonym of Sclerodoris prea (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
  • Atagema quadrimaculata Collier, 1963: synonym of Atagema alba (O'Donoghue, 1927)

References

  1. Gray, J. E. in Gray, M. E. (1850). Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors, etched for the use of students, vol. 4, pp. 1-124. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. (2001). Systematics and phylogeny of the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133(2): 103-198
  3. 1 2 Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Atagema Gray, 1850. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137659 on 2016-07-13
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
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