Felimare

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Felimare is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Miamirinae of the family Chromodorididae.[1]

Phylum:Mollusca
Infraorder:Doridoidei
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Felimare
Felimare picta on SS Rosslyn, Gibraltar
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Infraorder: Doridoidei
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Felimare
Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967
Type species
Felimare bayeri
Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967
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Taxonomic history

Felimare was described by Eveline & Ernst Marcus in 1967 but treated as a synonym of Hypselodoris until 2012 when it was brought back into use for an eastern Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean clade revealed by molecular (DNA) techniques.[2]

Species

Species brought into synonymy
  • Felimare ghiselini (Bertsch, 1978): synonym of Felimare californiensis (Bergh, 1879)
  • Felimare midatlantica (Gosliner, 1990): synonym of Felimare tricolor (Cantraine, 1835)
  • Felimare verdensis (Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996): synonym of Felimare tema (Edmunds, 1981)

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