Ceratophyllidia

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Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Phyllidiidae		Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Phyllidioidea Rank Genus

Similar Ceratophyllidia papilligera, Phyllidiopsis, Phyllidiidae, Phyllidiella, Paradoris

Ceratophyllidia is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Phyllidiidae.

They are known for their unusually soft, spherical and stalked tubercules on their upper dorsa. Unlike the species of Phyllidia, they lack oral glands or the glands are free from the oral tube.

Species

Species in the genus Ceratophyllidia include:

Ceratophyllidia africana Eliot, 1903

Ceratophyllidia papilligera (Bergh, 1890)

Species brought into synonymy

Ceratophyllidia grisea Eliot, 1910: synonym of Ceratophyllidia africana Eliot, 1903

Ceratophyllidia molaensis (Meyer, 1977): synonym of Phyllidiella molaensis (Meyer, 1977)

References

Ceratophyllidia Wikipedia

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