Corambe
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| Corambe | |
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| The crazed nudibranch, Corambe sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Family: | Corambidae |
| Genus: | Corambe Bergh, 1869[1] |
| Type species | |
| Corambe sargassicola Bergh, 1871 | |
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Corambe is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in family Corambidae within the superfamily Onchidoridoidea.[2][3]
Species in this genus show a characteristic posterior notch in the notum (which is lacking in some taxa) and a characteristic gill morphology, especially the presence of ventral gills.
These nudibranchs occur in littoral and sublittoral temperate waters of the northern and southern hemispheres.
General description
They are mostly small (between 5 and 10 mm) and rather hard to find because they are very well camouflaged. They prey on encrusting bryozoans.
Species
Species within the genus Corambe include:
- Corambe burchi (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967)
- Corambe carambola Er. Marcus, 1955
- Corambe evelinae Er. Marcus, 1958
- Corambe lucea Er. Marcus, 1959
- Corambe mancorensis Martynov, Brenzinger, Hooker & Schrödl, 2011
- Corambe obscura (A. E. Verrill, 1870)
- Corambe osculabundus Ortea & Caballer, 2018
- Corambe pacifica MacFarland & O'Donoghue, 1929
- Corambe sp. crazed nudibranch[4]
- Corambe steinbergae (Lance, 1962) (synonym of Doridella steinbergae (Lance, 1962))
- Corambe testudinaria H. Fischer, 1889
