Goniobranchus

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

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Goniobranchus
Goniobranchus coi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Goniobranchus
(Pease, 1866)[1]
Type species
Doris vibrata
Pease, 1860
Synonyms

Lissodoris Odhner, 1934

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Goniobranchus obsoletus, Mediterranean off Israel, 2021

Taxonomic history

Goniobranchus was described by Pease in 1866 but treated as a synonym of Chromodoris until 2012 when it was brought back into use for a clade revealed by molecular (DNA) techniques.[3][4]

Species

Species in the genus Goniobranchus include:[2]

Species brought into synonymy

References

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