Atagema

Atagema
Atagema rugosa on the Atlantic Coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Atagema
Gray, 1850
Type species
Doris carinata Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
Synonyms
list
  • Glossodoridiformia O'Donoghue, 1927
  • Petelodoris Bergh, 1882
  • Phlegmodoris Bergh, 1878
  • Trippa Bergh, 1877
  • Trippa (Phlegmodoris) Bergh, 1878 junior subjective synonym

Atagema is a genus of sea slugs, specifically dorid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Discodorididae.

General characteristics

(Original description) The respiratory gills are significantly reduced and positioned at the distal end of the dorsal sac.

Species

Species so far described in this genus include:

Species inquirenda
synonyms

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. (2001). Systematics and phylogeny of the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133(2): 103-198
  2. 1 2 Atagema Gray, 1850. 17 December 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  3. ↑ Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
  4. ↑ Gray, J.E. in Gray, M.E. (1850). Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors, etched for the use of students, vol. 4, pp. 1-124. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ↑ Innabi, Julie; Stout, Carla C.; Valdés, Ángel (2023-03-07). "Seven new "cryptic" species of Discodorididae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) from New Caledonia". ZooKeys (1152): 45–95. Bibcode:2023ZooK.1152...45I. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1152.98258. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 10194415.