Coryphella

Coryphella
Coryphella trilineata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Cladobranchia
Superfamily:	Fionoidea
Family:	Coryphellidae
Genus:	Coryphella M.E. Gray, 1850
Synonyms
List BorealeaKorshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017 BorealiaKorshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017 FjordiaKorshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017 GuleniaKorshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017 HimatellaBergh, 1890 HimatinaThiele, 1931 ItaxiaKorshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017 MicrochlamyllaKorshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017 OccidentellaKorshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017 OccidenthellaKorshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017 OrientellaKorshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017 OrienthellaKorshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017

Coryphella is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Coryphellidae. ^[1]

Taxonomy

Coryphella was originally described in an 1850 paper, and included three original species; Coryphella landsburgii, Coryphella rufobranchialis, and Coryphella pellucida. ^[2] Molecular studies have found that many existing genera were actually synonymous with Coryphella, leading to many genera being merged. ^[3]

Species

Species within the genus Coryphella are as follows: ^{[4] [5]}

• Coryphella abei Baba, 1987
• Coryphella alexanderi Ekimova, 2022
• Coryphella amabilis (Hirano & Kuzirian, 1991)
• Coryphella athadona Bergh, 1875
• Coryphella borealis Odhner, 1922
• Coryphella browni Picton, 1980
• Coryphella californica Bergh, 1904
• Coryphella capensis Thiele, 1925
• Coryphella chriskaugei (Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017)
• Coryphella cooperi Cockerell, 1901
• Coryphella falklandica Eliot, 1907
• Coryphella fogata (Millen & Hermosillo, 2007)
• Coryphella gracilis (Alder & Hancock, 1844)
• Coryphella insolita (García-Gómez & Cervera, 1989)
• Coryphella lineata (Lovén, 1846)
• Coryphella monicae (Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017)
• Coryphella nobilis A. E. Verrill, 1880
• Coryphella orjani (Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017)
• Coryphella pallida A. E. Verrill, 1900
• Coryphella sanamyanae (Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017)
• Coryphella trilineata O'Donoghue, 1921
• Coryphella trophina (Bergh, 1890)
• Coryphella verrucosa (M. Sars, 1829)
• Coryphella verta Ev. Marcus, 1970

• 
  Coryphella verrucosa, spawn, Gulen Dive Resort, Norway
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  Coryphella verrucosa, Gulen Dive Resort, Norway
• 
  Coryphella verrucosa, British Columbia
• 
  Coryphella verrucosa, Kenai Fjords national Park, Alaska

References

1. Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Bakken, T.; Evertsen, J.; Fletcher, K.; Mudianta, W.; Saito, H.; Lundin, K.; Schrödl, M.; Picton, B. (2017). Polyphyly of the traditional family Flabellinidae affects a major group of Nudibranchia: aeolidacean taxonomic reassessment with descriptions of several new families, genera, and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys. 717: 1-139.
2. Gray, Maria Emma; Gray, John Edward (1859). Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Vol. 4. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. p. 109. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10461. OCLC   9597391 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
3. Ekimova, Irina; Valdés, Ángel; Malaquias, Manuel António E; Rauch, Cessa; Chichvarkhin, Anton; Mikhlina, Anna; Antokhina, Tatiana; Chichvarkhina, Olga; Schepetov, Dimitry (16 March 2022). "High-level taxonomic splitting in allopatric taxa causes confusion downstream: a revision of the nudibranch family Сoryphellidae" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 196 (1): 215–249. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab109.
4. Marshall, B.; Picton, B.; Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S. (2017). Coryphella M. E. Gray, 1850. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2018-01-13.
5. Bouchet, Phillipe (2019). "Coryphella". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 4 May 2025.