Costasiella Explained

Costasiella is a genus of sacoglossan sea slugs, a shell-less marine opisthobranchid gastropod mollusk in the family Costasiellidae.^[1]

The most recent diagnosis of the genus Costasiella is by the Dutch malacologist Cornelis Kees Swennen (2007).

Species

There are 17 species in the genus Costasiella^{[2] [1]}

• Costasiella arenaria K. R. Jensen, Krug, Dupont & Nishina, 2014
• Costasiella coronata Swennen, 2007^[2]
• Costasiella formicaria (Baba, 1959)
• Costasiella fridae Fernández-Simón & Moles, 2023
• Costasiella illa (Marcus, 1965)
• Costasiella iridophora Ichikawa, 1993
• Costasiella kuroshimae Ichikawa, 1993
• Costasiella mandorahae Jensen 1997
• Costasiella nonatoi Marcus & Marcus, 1960
• Costasiella ocellifera (Simroth, 1895)
• Costasiella pallida Jensen, 1985
• Costasiella patricki Espinoza, DuPont & Valdés, 2014
• Costasiella paweli Ichikawa, 1993
• Costasiella rubrolineata Ichikawa, 1993
• Costasiella usagi Ichikawa, 1993
• Costasiella vegae Ichikawa, 1993
• Costasiella virescens Pruvot-Fol, 1951

Species brought into synonymy:

• Costasiella lilianae (Marcus & Marcus, 1969) - Clark (1984):^[3] synonym of Costasiella ocellifera (Simroth, 1895)^[2]

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Costasiella Pruvot-Fol, 1951. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137845 on 2015-01-17
2. Swennen C. (31 August 2007). "Costasiella coronata, new species, and a revised diagnosis for the Family Costasiellidae (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2) : 355-362. PDF
3. Clark K. B. (1984). "New records and synonymies of Bermuda Opisthobranchs (Gastropoda)". The Nautilus 98: 85–97.