Onchidoris

Onchidoris
A live individual of Onchidoris bilamellata, head end towards the right
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Family: Onchidorididae
Genus: Onchidoris
Blainville, 1816
Type species
Onchidoris leachii Blainville, 1816: synonym of Onchidoris bilamellata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms
  • Atalodoris Iredale O'Donoghue, 1923
  • Lamellidoris Alder & Hancock, 1855
  • Oicodespina Gistel, 1848 (unnecessary substitute name for Villiersia d'Orbigny, 1837)
  • Onchidorus Blainville, 1816 (incorrect original spelling)
  • Proctaporia Mörch, 1857
  • Villiersia d'Orbigny, 1837

Onchidoris is a genus of dorid nudibranchs in the family Onchidorididae. One of its members is known to prey on barnacles and the others eat bryozoans. The radula contains a rachidian tooth when fully developed, but this is vestigial in some species.A molecular phylogeny study showed that they aren't closely related to some other species of Knoutsodonta within which genus they were formerly placed.

Species

Species within the genus Onchidoris include:

Species brought into synonymy

Taxonomy

Many authors prefer Onchidorus Blainville, 1816 as the valid name for the genus, changed to Onchidoris (Winckworth, 1932; Bouchet & Tardy, 1976; Thompson & Brown, 1976; Cattaneo & Barletta, 1984). According to Pruvot-Fol (1954) however this latter is a nomen nudum, while the elder synonym Villiersia is a nomen oblitum (see also Abbott, 1974). This is why Odhner (1907), Pruvot-Fol (1954), Swennen (1961) and Abbott (1974) are followed in the use of Lamellidoris Alder & Hancock, 1855.

References

  1. ↑ Blainville H.M.D. de (1816). Quatrième mémoire sur les mollusques, de l'ordre des Cyclobranches. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris, 1816: 93-97.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Onchidoris. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2018-09-10.
  3. ↑ Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp
  4. ↑ Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  5. ↑ Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  6. 1 2 Thompson, T.E. and Brown, G.H., 1984. Biology of Opisthobranch Molluscs, Volume II. The Ray Society. 229 pages 41 plates, 40 figures, p. 125.
  7. ↑ Hallas, Joshua M.; Gosliner, Terrence M. (2015-07-01). "Family matters: The first molecular phylogeny of the Onchidorididae Gray, 1827 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 88: 16–27. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.03.015. ISSN 1055-7903.