Ceratosoma

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Ceratosoma
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Ceratosoma brevicaudatum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Ceratosoma
J. E. Gray in M. E. Gray, 1850 [1]
Type species
Ceratosoma trilobatum [2]

Ceratosoma is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae. [5] [6]

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Taxonomic notes

This nudibranch genus is not to be confused with the muricid gastropod genus Ceratostoma . The type species is Ceratosoma cornigerum , accepted as Ceratosoma trilobatum(J.E. Gray, 1827)

Species

Species in the genus Ceratosoma include: [5]

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. Gray, J. E. (1850). Explanation of plates and list of genera. In M.E. Gray, Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Vol. 4. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 124 pp.
  2. Molluscabase https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212893
  3. Pages 13, pl. 67 fig. 14 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11632090#page/9/mode/1up(1848-50).
  4. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212891
  5. 1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Ceratosoma A. Adams & Reeve, 1850. Accessed on 2018-12-01
  6. Rudman W.B. (1984) The date and authorship of Bornella and Ceratosoma (Nudibranchia) and other molluscs collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, 1843-46. Malacological Review 17: 103-104, page(s): 170