Pseudunela

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Pseudunela
Pseudunela cornuta svg hariadhi.svg
Schematic drawing of a dorsal view of Pseudunela cornuta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
Family:
Pseudunelidae

Rankin, 1979 [2]
Genus:
Pseudunela

Diversity [4]
4 species and inadequate data on other species

Pseudunela is a genus of minute sea slugs, acochlidians, shell-less marine or temporary brackish or brackish gastropod mollusks in the clade Acochlidiacea.

Contents

Pseudunela is the only genus in the family Pseudunelidae. [1] Pseudunela is the type genus of the family Pseudunelidae. [5]

Taxonomy

Pseudunelidae was placed within the superfamily Strubellioidea in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). [5]

Pseudunelidae was subsequently placed within the (unranked) Hedylopsacea by Schrödl & Neusser (2010). [1]

Species

These are the different species in the genus Pseudunela: [6]

Cladogram

A cladogram based on sequences of mitochondrial 18S ribosomal RNA, 16S ribosomal RNA and cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of the genus Pseudunela: [4]

Pseudunela

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References

This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from reference. [7]

  1. 1 2 3 Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 124-154. doi : 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00544.x.
  2. Rankin J. J. (1979) "A freshwater shell-less mollusc from the Caribbean: structure, biotics, and contribution to a new understanding of the Acochlidioidea" Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contributions, 116: 123 pp., Pseudunelidae is on the page 89.
  3. Salvini-Plawen L. von (1973). Z. Zool. Syst. Evol. Forsch.11: 122.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Neusser T. P., Jörger K. M. & Schrödl M. (2011). "Cryptic Species in Tropic Sands - Interactive 3D Anatomy, Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Meiofaunal Pseudunelidae (Gastropoda, Acochlidia)". PLoS ONE 6(8): e23313. doi : 10.1371/journal.pone.0023313.
  5. 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  6. Neusser, Timea P.; Jörger, Katharina M.; Schrödl, Michael (2011-08-31). "Cryptic Species in Tropic Sands - Interactive 3D Anatomy, Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Meiofaunal Pseudunelidae (Gastropoda, Acochlidia)". PLOS ONE. 6 (8): e23313. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...623313N. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023313 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   3166138 . PMID   21912592.
  7. 1 2 Neusser T. P., Martin Heß M. & Schrödl M. (11 September 2009) "Tiny but complex - interactive 3D visualization of the interstitial acochlidian gastropod Pseudunela cornuta (Challis, 1970)". Frontiers in Zoology 2009, 6: 20. doi : 10.1186/1742-9994-6-20
  8. 1 2 3 Neusser T. P. & Schrödl M. (2009) "Between Vanuatu tides: 3D anatomical reconstruction of a new brackish water acochlidian gastropod from Espiritu Santo. Zoosystema 31(3): 453-469. PDF Archived 2011-06-12 at the Wayback Machine