Pseudunela
Genus of gastropods
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Pseudunela is a genus of minute sea slugs, acochlidians, shell-less marine or temporary brackish or brackish gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Acochlidioidea.
| Pseudunela | |
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| Schematic drawing of a dorsal view of Pseudunela cornuta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Infraclass: | Euthyneura |
| Subterclass: | Tectipleura |
| Superorder: | Acochlidiimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Acochlidioidea |
| Family: | Pseudunelidae Rankin, 1979[1] |
| Genus: | Pseudunela Salvini-Plawen, 1973[2] |
| Diversity[3] | |
| 4 species and inadequate data on other species | |
Pseudunela is the only genus in the family Pseudunelidae.[4] Pseudunela is the type genus of the family Pseudunelidae.[5]
Taxonomy
Pseudunelidae was placed within the superfamily Strubellioidea in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).[5]
Pseudunelidae was subsequently placed within the (unranked) Hedylopsacea by Schrödl & Neusser (2010).[4]
Species
These are the different species in the genus Pseudunela:[6]
- Pseudunela cornuta (Challis, 1970) - type species of the genus Pseudunela, marine and temporary brackish[3]
- Pseudunela eirene Wawra, 1988 - The description of Pseudunela eirene is brief and based on a single specimen with ganglia of the nervous system and stylets of copulatory organs studied on a whole-mount by light microscopy only. No histological sections were made, and the radula was studied light-microscopically after dissolving the soft parts and stylets. Information on other organ systems is absent, and no further specimens are available for study.[7] Marine species.[8]
- Pseudunela espiritusanta Neusser & Schrödl, 2009[8] This species from Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu lives in brackish water[8]
- Pseudunela marteli Neusser, Jörger & Schrödl, 2011 - marine[3]
- Pseudunela viatoris Neusser, Jörger & Schrödl, 2011 - marine[3]
Cladogram
A cladogram based on sequences of mitochondrial 18S ribosomal RNA, 16S ribosomal RNA and cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of the genus Pseudunela:[3]
