Kruppomenia Explained

Kruppomenia is a genus of solenogaster, a kind of shell-less, worm-like, marine mollusk. ^[1]

One species is 2.5 mm long.^[2]

Species

• Kruppomenia angolensis Gil-Mansilla, García-Álvarez & Urgorri, 2012
• Kruppomenia borealis Odhner, 1920
• Kruppomenia bulla Zamarro, García-Álvarez & Urgorri, 2015
• Kruppomenia delta Scheltema & Schander, 2000
• Kruppomenia genslerae Ostermair, Brandt, Haszprunar, Jörger & Bergmeier, 2018
• Kruppomenia glandulata Gil-Mansilla, García-Álvarez & Urgorri, 2012
• Kruppomenia levis Scheltema & Schander, 2000
• Kruppomenia macrodenticulata Gil-Mansilla, García-Álvarez & Urgorri, 2012
• Kruppomenia macrodoryata Todt & Salvini-Plawen, 2003
• Kruppomenia minima Nierstrasz, 1903
• Kruppomenia nanodentata Todt & Salvini-Plawen, 2003
• Kruppomenia rhynchota (Salvini-Plawen, 1978)
• Kruppomenia vitucoi Zamarro & García-Álvarez, 2015

References

• Nierstrasz, H.F. 1903. Kruppomenia minima n. g. n. sp. S. Lo Bianco, Le pesche abissali del Mediterraneo. Mittheilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapal, 16:109-278
• García-Álvarez O. & Salvini-Plawen L.v. (2007). Species and diagnosis of the families and genera of Solenogastres (Mollusca). Iberus 25(2): 73-143

External links

• Cobo, M. C.; Kocot, K. M. (2020). Micromenia amphiatlantica sp. nov.: First solenogaster (Mollusca, Aplacophora) with an amphi-Atlantic distribution and insight into abyssal solenogaster diversity. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 157: 103189

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Kruppomenia Nierstrasz, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=340694 on 2021-04-13
2. Gil-Mansilla . E. . García-Álvarez . O. . Urgorri . V. . 10.1017/S0025315411001275 . Three new species of Kruppomenia (Solenogastres: Simrothiellidae) from the abyssal Angola Basin . Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom . 92 . 2 . 349 . 2011 .