Aegires

Aegires
A live individual of the knobbly nudibranch, Aegires ninguis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Aegiridae
Genus: Aegires
Lovén, 1844[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Aegires (Anaegires) Odhner, 1934
  • Aegirus Agassiz, 1846 (unjustified emendation, introduced in synonymy)
  • Anaegires Odhner, 1934
  • Serigea F. Nordsieck, 1972
  • Triopella G.O. Sars, 1878

Aegires is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aegiridae.[2] Species within this genus feed exclusively on calcareous sponges.[3]

Aegires is the type genus of the family Aegiridae.[4]

  1. ^ Lovén S. L. (1844). Ofvers. K. Vet. Acad. Förh. 1(3): 49.
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  3. ^ Vietti, RC; Balduzzi, A (1991). "Relationship between radular morphology and food in the Doridina (Mollusca: Nudibranchia). Malacologia". 32 (2): 211–217. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Fahey 2004 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).