Ceratosoma

Ceratosoma
Ceratosoma brevicaudatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Ceratosoma
J. E. Gray in M. E. Gray, 1850[1]
Type species
Doris trilobata
J.E. Gray, 1827

Ceratosoma is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae.

This nudibranch genus is not to be confused with the muricid gastropod genus Ceratostoma.

Species

Species in the genus Ceratosoma include:[2]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Ceratosoma adelaidae Basedow & Hedley, 1905 accepted as Ceratosoma brevicaudatum Abraham, 1876
  • Ceratosoma alleni Gosliner, 1996 : synonym of Miamira alleni (Gosliner, 1996)
  • Ceratosoma amoena [sic] accepted as Ceratosoma amoenum (Cheeseman, 1886)
  • Ceratosoma berghi Rochebrune, 1895 accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827)
  • Ceratosoma bicorne Bergh, 1905 accepted as Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876
  • Ceratosoma caledonicum Fischer, 1876 accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827)
  • Ceratosoma corallinum Odhner, 1917 accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827)
  • Ceratosoma flavicostatum Baba, 1940 : synonym of Miamira flavicostata Baba, 1940
  • Ceratosoma francoisi Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876
  • Ceratosoma gibbosum Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827)
  • Ceratosoma jousseaumi Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876
  • Ceratosoma lixi Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum (J.E. Gray, 1827)
  • Ceratosoma magnifica [sic] accepted as Miamira magnifica Eliot, 1904
  • Ceratosoma magnificum (Eliot, 1910) : synonym of Miamira magnifica Eliot, 1904
  • Ceratosoma miamiranum Bergh, 1875 : synonym of Miamira miamirana (Bergh, 1875)
  • Ceratosoma moloch Rudman, 1988 : synonym of Miamira moloch (Rudman, 1988)
  • Ceratosoma oblongum Abraham, 1876 accepted as Ceratosoma brevicaudatum Abraham, 1876
  • Ceratosoma ornatum Bergh, 1890 accepted as Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876
  • Ceratosoma rhopalicum Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as Ceratosoma tenue Abraham, 1876
  • Ceratosoma sinuatum van Hasselt, 1824 : synonym of Miamira sinuata (van Hasselt, 1824)

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-25. Retrieved 2009-12-19.
  2. ↑ http://www.seaslugforum.net/search.cfm?searchstring=Ceratosoma
  • Rudman W.B. (1988). The Chromodorididae (Ophistobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: the genus Ceratosoma J.E. Gray. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93 (1): 133-185
  • Rudman W.B. (1984) The date and authorship of Bornella and Ceratosoma (Nudibranchia) and other molluscs collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, 1843-46. Malacological Review 17: 103-104.

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