Felimare

Felimare
Felimare picta on SS Rosslyn, Gibraltar
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Infraorder:	Doridoidei
Superfamily:	Doridoidea
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Felimare Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967
Type species
Felimare bayeri Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967

Felimare is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Miamirinae of the family Chromodorididae. ^[1]

Taxonomic history

Felimare was described by Eveline & Ernst Marcus in 1967 but treated as a synonym of Hypselodoris until 2012 when it was brought back into use for an eastern Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean clade revealed by molecular (DNA) techniques. ^[2]

Species

• Felimare acriba (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
• Felimare agassizii (Bergh, 1894)
• Felimare alaini (Ortea, Espinosa & Buske, 2013)
• Felimare amalguae (Gosliner & Bertsch, 1988)
• Felimare aurantimaculata Ortigosa, Pola & Cervera, 2017 ^[3]
• Felimare bayeri Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967
• Felimare bilineata (Pruvot-Fol, 1953)
• Felimare californiensis (Bergh, 1879)
• Felimare cantabrica (Bouchet & Ortea, 1980)
• Felimare ciminoi (Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
• Felimare espinosai (Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
• Felimare fontandraui (Pruvot-Fol, 1951)
• Felimare fortunensis (Ortea, Espinosa & Buske, 2013)
• Felimare francoisae (Bouchet, 1980)
• Felimare fregona (Ortea & Caballer, 2013)
• Felimare garciagomezi (Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
• Felimare gasconi (Ortea, 1996)
• Felimare gofasi (Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
• Felimare juliae (DaCosta, Padula & Schrödl, 2010)
• Felimare kempfi (Ev. Marcus, 1971)
• Felimare lajensis (Troncoso, Garcia & Urgorri, 1998)
• Felimare lalique (Ortea & Caballer, 2013)
• Felimare lapislazuli (Bertsch & Ferreira, 1974)
• Felimare lilyeveae (Alejandrino & Valdés, 2006)
• Felimare malacitana (Luque, 1986)
• Felimare marci (Ev. Marcus, 1971)
• Felimare molloi (Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
• Felimare muniainae (Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
• Felimare nyalya (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
• Felimare olgae (Ortea & Bacallado, 2007)
• Felimare orsinii (Vérany, 1846)
• Felimare picta (Schultz in Philippi, 1836)
  • Felimare picta azorica(Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996)
• Felimare pinna (Ortea, 1988)
• Felimare porterae (Cockerell, 1901)
• Felimare ruthae (Ev. Marcus & Hughes, 1974)
• Felimare samueli (Caballer & Ortea, 2012)
• Felimare sechurana Hoover, Padula, Schrödl, Hooker & Valdés, 2017
• Felimare sisalensis Ortigosa & Valdés, 2012 ^[4]
• Felimare sycilla (Bergh, 1890)
• Felimare tema (Edmunds, 1981)
• Felimare tricolor (Cantraine, 1835)
• Felimare villafranca (Risso, 1818)
• Felimare xicoi (Ortea & Valdés, 1996)
• Felimare zebra (Heilprin, 1889)

Species brought into synonymy

• Felimare ghiselini(Bertsch, 1978): synonym of Felimare californiensis(Bergh, 1879)
• Felimare midatlantica(Gosliner, 1990): synonym of Felimare tricolor(Cantraine, 1835)
• Felimare verdensis(Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996): synonym of Felimare tema(Edmunds, 1981)

Gallery

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  Felimare bilineata
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  Felimare cantabrica
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  Felimare fontandraui
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  Felimare orsinii
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  Felimare picta
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  Felimare lajensis
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  Felimare marci
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  Felimare tricolor
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  Felimare villafranca
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  Felimare zebra

References

1. Bouchet, P.; Caballer, M. (2012). Felimare. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-05-01
2. Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479
3. Ortigosa D., Pola M., Cervera J. L. (2017). "A new Felimare (Mollusca: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia) of the Atlantic blue chromodorid chromatic group from Cape Verde". Scientia Marina 81(3): 387-394. doi : 10.3989/scimar.04594.16A.
4. Ortigosa, D. & Valdés, A., (2015) A new species of Felimare (formerly Mexichromis)(Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Chromodorididae) from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Nautilus-Sanibel.