Verconia

Verconia
A live individual of Verconia romeri, in situ, head end towards the lower left
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Verconia
Type species
Albania verconis Basedow & Hedley, 1905
Synonyms

Noumea Risbec, 1928

Verconia is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae.[2]

The host sponges for species in this genus are sponges in the genera Darwinella and Dendrilla.

Noumea Risbec, 1928 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) is a junior homonym of Noumea Fauvel, 1874 (Arthropoda: Coleoptera), a name in current use. Verconia Pruvot-Fol, 1931 was recognized as a synonym of Noumea Risbec by Johnson & Gosliner (2012) and is here used for species of the chromodoridid group previously known as Noumea.[2][3]

Species

Species in the genus Verconia include:[4][2]

Species brought into synonymy:

Further reading

  • Rudman W. B. (1984). "The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: a review of the genera". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 81(2/3): 115-273. pages: 137.
  • 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. page(s): 181
  • Rudman W. B. & Darvell B. W. (1990). "Opisthobranch molluscs of Hong Kong: Part 1. Goniodorididae, Onchidorididae, Triophidae, Gymnodorididae, Chromodorididae (Nudibranchia)". Asian Marine Biology 7: 31-79. pages: 54.
  • Rudman W. B. (1990). "The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: further species of Glossodoris, Thorunna and the Chromodoris aureomarginata colour group". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 100: 263-326. pages: 295, 298.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 25, 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 Bieler, R.; Bouchet, P.; Caballer, M. (2015). Verconia Pruvot-Fol, 1931. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533937 on 2016-01-13
  3. ↑ Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479
  4. ↑ http://www.seaslugforum.net/search.cfm?searchstring=Verconia
  5. ↑ Gosliner T. M. (1994). "New species of Chromodoris and Noumea (Nudibranch: Chromodorididae) from the Western Indian Ocean and Southern Africa". Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 12 48:239-252


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