Pteraeolidia

Pteraeolidia
Pteraeolidia ianthina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Cladobranchia
Family:	Facelinidae
Genus:	Pteraeolidia Bergh, 1875 [1] [2]
Type species
Pteraeolidia semperi (Bergh, 1870)

Pteraeolidia is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Facelinidae. ^[3]

Species

Species within the genus Pteraeolidia include:

• Pteraeolidia annulata Eliot, 1910 - synonym: Indocratena annulata(Eliot, 1910)
• Pteraeolidia ianthina (Angas, 1864) - synonyms: Flabellina ianthinaAngas, 1864, Flabellina scolopendrellaRisbec, 1928
• Pteraeolidia semperi (Bergh, 1870) - synonym: Flabellina semperiBergh, 1870

A 2015 study suggests that Pteraeolidia semperi is a species complex and there are many species of it in the Indo-Pacific region. ^[4]

References

1. Bergh R. (1875). Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien25: Abh., 652.
2. Bergh, R. 1875. Neue Nacktschnecken der Südsee, malacologische Untersuchungen. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, 8: 185-232, pls 7-11.
3. Bouchet, P. (2015). Pteraeolidia. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-07
4. Wilson N.G. & Burghardt I. (2015). Here be dragons – phylogeography of Pteraeolidia ianthina (Angas, 1864) reveals multiple species of photosynthetic nudibranchs (Aeolidina: Nudibranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175(1): 119-133.

Further reading

• SEM images of the radula can be found at Thompson, T.E.; Bebbington, A. (1973). "Scanning electron microscope studies of gastropod radulae". Malacologia . 14: 147–165.
• Bergh, L. S. R. 1890. Die cladohepatischen Nudibranchien. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abtheilung für Systematik Geographie und Biologie der Thiere 5:1-75.
• Bergh, L. S. R. 1892. Malacologische Untersuchungen. In: Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen von Dr. Carl Gottfried Semper. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Band 2, Theil 3, Heft 18, pp. 995–1165.
• Bergh, L. S. R. 1905a. Die Opisthobranchiata der Siboga-Expedition. Monographie 50, pp. 1–248, pls. 1-20.
• Thiele, J. 1992. Handbook of Systematic Malacology, part 2 (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia and Pulmonata). Scientific editors of Translation: Rüdiger Bieler & Paula M. Mikkelsen. xiv + 1189 pp. Smithsonian Institution Libraries & National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C.; page 748
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN   0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp