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Phyllidiopsis is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs and is the largest genus within the family Phyllidiidae.




Description


The species in this genus differ from the other genera in this family by possessing an elongate foregut and fused oral tentacles.




Distribution


These nudibranchs can be found in the tropical Indo-Pacific region, the eastern Pacific region, in the Red Sea, in the Caribbean Sea and a few in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. About half of the described species can be found in deep waters. Among these deep-water sea slugs, there is a group of white species, lacking all contrasting colors.




Species


There are presently about 30 species in the genus Phyllidiopsis including :

Phyllidiopsis annae Brunckhorst, 1993
Phyllidiopsis anomala Valdés, 2001
Phyllidiopsis bayi (Bouchet, 1983)
Phyllidiopsis berghi Vayssière, 1902
Phyllidiopsis blanca Gosliner & Behrens, 1988
Phyllidiopsis boucheti Valdes & Ortea, 1996
Phyllidiopsis brunckhorsti Valdés, 2001
Phyllidiopsis burni Brunckhorst, 1993
Phyllidiopsis cardinalis Bergh, 1876 : type species of the genus Phyllidiopsis
Phyllidiopsis circularis Valdés, 2001
Phyllidiopsis crucifera Valdés, 2001
Phyllidiopsis dautzenbergi (Vayssière, 1912)
Phyllidiopsis fissurata Brunckhorst, 1993
Phyllidiopsis futunai Valdés, 2001
Phyllidiopsis gemmata Pruvot-Fol, 1957
Phyllidiopsis holothuriana Valdés, 2001
Phyllidiopsis krempfi Pruvot-Fol, 1957
Phyllidiopsis loricata (Bergh, 1873)
Phyllidiopsis lozoueti Valdés, 2001
Phyllidiopsis macrotuberculata Valdés, 2001
Phyllidiopsis monacha (Yonow, 1986)
Phyllidiopsis neocaledonica Valdés, 2001
Phyllidiopsis phiphiensis Brunckhorst, 1993
Phyllidiopsis pipeki Brunckhorst, 1993
Phyllidiopsis quadrilineata (Bergh, 1905)
Phyllidiopsis richeri Valdés, 2001
Phyllidiopsis shireenae Brunckhorst, 1990
Phyllidiopsis sinaiensis (Yonow, 1988)
Phyllidiopsis sphingis Brunckhorst, 1993
Phyllidiopsis vanuatuensis Valdés, 2001
Phyllidiopsis xishaensis (Lin, 1983)
Species brought into synonymy

Phyllidiopsis carinata Eliot, 1910 : synonym of Phyllidia ocellata Cuvier, 1804
Phyllidiopsis fissuratus Brunckhorst, 1993: synonym of Phyllidiopsis fissurata Brunckhorst, 1993 (incorrect gender agreement of specific epithet)
Phyllidiopsis gynenopla Bouchet, 1977: synonym of Phyllidiopsis berghi Vayssière, 1902
Phyllidiopsis molaensis Meyer, 1977 accepted as Phyllidiella molaensis (Meyer, 1977) (original combination)
Phyllidiopsis papilligera Bergh, 1890: synonym of Ceratophyllidia papilligera (Bergh, 1890)
Phyllidiopsis striata Bergh, 1888: synonym of Phyllidiella striata (Bergh, 1890)
A maximum-parsimony analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the 16S mtDNA gene, performed in 2003, has shown that the genus Phyllidiopsis is paraphyletic.





















































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Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Phyllidiopsis
• Ceratophyllidia papilligera
• Phyllidiopsis blanca
• Phyllidiopsis pipeki
• Phyllidiopsis loricata
• Phyllidiopsis gemmata
• Phyllidiopsis fissurata
• Phyllidiopsis krempfi
• Phyllidiopsis burni
• Phyllidiopsis shireenae