Phyllidiopsis
Genus of gastropods
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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.[1]
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| Phyllidiopsis | |
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| Phyllidiopsis cardinalis, head end at the bottom of the image | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Infraorder: | Doridoidei |
| Superfamily: | Phyllidioidea |
| Family: | Phyllidiidae |
| Genus: | Phyllidiopsis Bergh, 1876 |
| Type species | |
| Phyllidiopsis cardinalis Bergh, 1876 | |
Description
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.[3][4]
Species
There are presently about 30 species in the genus Phyllidiopsis including :[1]
- Phyllidiopsis annae Brunckhorst, 1993[5]
- Phyllidiopsis anomala Valdés, 2001 [3]
- Phyllidiopsis bayi (Bouchet, 1983)
- Phyllidiopsis berghi Vayssière, 1902 [6]
- Phyllidiopsis blanca Gosliner & Behrens, 1988 [7]
- Phyllidiopsis boucheti Valdes & Ortea, 1996
- Phyllidiopsis brunckhorsti Valdés, 2001 [3]
- Phyllidiopsis burni Brunckhorst, 1993[5]
- Phyllidiopsis cardinalis Bergh, 1876 : type species of the genus Phyllidiopsis
- Phyllidiopsis circularis Valdés, 2001 [3]
- Phyllidiopsis crucifera Valdés, 2001 [3]
- Phyllidiopsis dautzenbergi (Vayssière, 1912)[8]
- Phyllidiopsis fissurata Brunckhorst, 1993[5]
- Phyllidiopsis futunai Valdés, 2001[3]
- Phyllidiopsis gemmata Pruvot-Fol, 1957[9]
- Phyllidiopsis holothuriana Valdés, 2001 [3]
- Phyllidiopsis krempfi Pruvot-Fol, 1957[9]
- Phyllidiopsis loricata (Bergh, 1873)
- Phyllidiopsis lozoueti Valdés, 2001 [3]
- Phyllidiopsis macrotuberculata Valdés, 2001 [3]
- Phyllidiopsis monacha (Yonow, 1986)
- Phyllidiopsis neocaledonica Valdés, 2001 [3]
- Phyllidiopsis phiphiensis Brunckhorst, 1993[5]
- Phyllidiopsis pipeki Brunckhorst, 1993[5]
- Phyllidiopsis quadrilineata (Bergh, 1905)
- Phyllidiopsis richeri Valdés, 2001[3]
- Phyllidiopsis shireenae Brunckhorst, 1990 [10]
- Phyllidiopsis sinaiensis (Yonow, 1988)[11]
- Phyllidiopsis sphingis Brunckhorst, 1993[5]
- Phyllidiopsis vanuatuensis Valdés, 2001[3]
- 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.[12]
Phyllidiopsis sp. 1
Phyllidiopsis unknown species at Wakatobi National Park, 2016
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