Knoutsodonta Explained

Knoutsodonta is a genus of dorid nudibranchs in the family Onchidorididae.^[1] The radular teeth are an unusual shape^[2] and a molecular phylogeny study showed that they are not closely related to some other species of Onchidoris within which genus they were formerly placed.

Species

Species within the genus Knoutsodonta include:

• Knoutsodonta albonigra (Pruvot-Fol, 1951)
• Knoutsodonta bouvieri (Vayssière, 1919)
• Knoutsodonta brasiliensis (Alvim, Padula & Pimenta, 2011)
• Knoutsodonta cervinoi (Ortea & Urgorri, 1979)
• Knoutsodonta depressa (Alder & Hancock, 1842)
• Knoutsodonta inconspicua (Alder & Hancock, 1851)
• Knoutsodonta jannae (Millen, 1987) - type species
• Knoutsodonta jannaella (Martynov, N. Sanamyan & Korshunova, 2015)
• Knoutsodonta maugeansis (Burn, 1958)
• Knoutsodonta neapolitana (Delle Chiaje, 1841)
• Knoutsodonta oblonga (Alder & Hancock, 1845)
• Knoutsodonta pictoni Furfaro & Trainito, 2017
• Knoutsodonta pusilla (Alder & Hancock, 1845)
• Knoutsodonta reticulata (Ortea, 1979)
• Knoutsodonta sparsa (Alder & Hancock, 1846)
• Knoutsodonta tridactila (Ortea & Ballesteros, 1982)

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Knoutsodonta Hallas & Gosliner, 2015. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2018-09-10.
2. Alvim . J. . Padula . V. . Pimenta . A. D. . 10.1017/S002531541000202X . First record of the genus Onchidoris (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Onchidorididae) from the South Atlantic Ocean, with the description of a new species from Brazil . Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom . 91 . 2 . 505–511 . 2011 .