Atagema

Atagema
Atagema rugosa on the Atlantic Coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Discodorididae
Genus:	Atagema Gray, 1850 [1]
Synonyms
GlossodoridiformiaO'Donoghue, 1927 [2] PetelodorisBergh, 1882 [2] PhlegmodorisBergh, 1878 [2] TrippaBergh, 1877 [2]

Atagema is a genus of sea slugs, specifically dorid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Discodorididae. ^{[3] [4]}

Species

Species so far described in this genus include: ^{[3] [5]}

• Atagema alba (O'Donoghue, 1927) hunchback doris
• Atagema albata (Burn, 1962)
• Atagema anceps (Bergh, 1890)
• Atagema boucheti Valdés & Gosliner, 2001
• Atagema browni T. E. Thompson, 1980
• Atagema carinata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - type species
• Atagema echinata (Pease, 1860)
• Atagema gibba Pruvot-Fol, 1951
• Atagema intecta (Kelaart, 1858)
• Atagema molesta (M. C. Miller, 1989)
• Atagema notacristata Camacho-Garcia & Gosliner, 2008
• Atagema ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831)
• Atagema osseosa Kelaart, 1859
• Atagema rugosa Pruvot-Fol, 1951 rugby-ball dorid, spined dorid
• Atagema scabriuscula (Pease, 1860)
• Atagema sobanovae (Innabi et al., 2023)
• Atagema spinosa (Risbec, 1928)
• Atagema spongiosa (Kelaart, 1858)
• Atagema triphylla (Bergh, 1892)
• Atagema tristis (Alder & Hancock, 1864)

Species inquerenda

• Atagema africanaPruvot-Fol, 1953

synonyms

• Atagema hispida(d'Orbigny, 1834): synonym of Diaulula hispida (d'Orbigny, 1834)
• Atagema prea(Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967) is a synonym of Sclerodoris prea (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
• Atagema quadrimaculataCollier, 1963: synonym of Atagema alba(O'Donoghue, 1927)

References

1. 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.
2. 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
3. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Atagema Gray, 1850. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137659 on 2016-07-13
4. 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
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 .