Chromodoris

Chromodoris
Chromodoris lochi
Chromodoris joshi in the Komodo National Park
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Chromodoris
Alder & Hancock, 1855[1]
Type species
Doris magnifica
Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
Species

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Synonyms
  • Actinodoris Ehrenberg, 1831 (Invalid: Placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 1375)
  • Doris (Actinodoris) Ehrenberg, 1831
  • Glossodoris (Chromodoris) Alder & Hancock, 1855

Chromodoris is a genus of very colourful sea slugs or dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs, and the type genus of the family Chromodorididae. Within the genus Chromodoris, there are currently 101 classified species. Species within Chromodoris are commonly found in tropical and subtropical waters, living as members of reef communities and preying primarily on sponges.[2] A molecular phylogeny of the family Chromodorididae resulted in this genus being restricted to a smaller number of species than formerly, most of which have longitudinal black lines on the mantle. Many former members of Chromodoris were transferred to Goniobranchus

  1. ^ Alder J. & Hancock A. (1855). A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca: with figures of all the species. The Ray Society, London. Part 7, Appendix xvii.
  2. ^ Johnson, Rebecca Fay (2008). History of the chromodorid nudibranchs: Nomenclature, phylogenetics, biogeography and classification (PhD in Biology and Evolutionary Biology thesis). University of California, Santa Cruz. ProQuest 304661522.