Thordisa Explained

Thordisa is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Discodorididae.^{[1] [2]}

Species

Species in the genus Thordisa include:^{[1] [3] [4]}

• Thordisa aculeata Ortea & Valdés, 1995
• Thordisa albomacula Chan & Gosliner, 2007
• Thordisa aurea Pruvot-Fol, 1951
• Thordisa azmanii Cervera & García-Gómez, 1989
• Thordisa bimaculata Lance, 1966
• Thordisa burnupi Eliot, 1910
• Thordisa diuda Marcus Er., 1955
• Thordisa filix Pruvot-Fol, 1951
• Thordisa harrisi Chan & Gosliner, 2006
• Thordisa hilaris Bergh, 1905
• Thordisa ladislavii (Ihering, 1886)
• Thordisa lurca (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
• Thordisa luteola Chan & Gosliner, 2007
• Thordisa nieseni Chan & Gosliner, 2007
• Thordisa oliva Chan & Gosliner, 2007
• Thordisa pallida Bergh, 1884
• Thordisa poplei Edmunds, 2011
• Thordisa rubescens Behrens & Henderson, 1981
• Thordisa sanguinea Baba, 1955
• Thordisa tahala Chan & Gosliner, 2007
• Thordisa verrucosa (Crosse in Angas, 1864)
• Thordisa villosa (Alder & Hancock, 1864)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Thordisa crosslandi Eliot, 1903 : synonym of Sebadoris nubilosa (Pease, 1871)
• Thordisa parva Baba, 1938 : synonym of Jorunna parva (Baba, 1938)
• Thordisa sabulosa Burn, 1957 : synonym of Thordisa verrucosa (Crosse in Angas, 1864)

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Thordisa Bergh, 1877. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2011-08-23
2. Valdés Á. (2002). A phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of the cryptobranch dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Anthobranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136: 535-636
3. Chan, J. M.; Gosliner, T. M. (2007). Preliminary phylogeny of Thordisa (Nudibranchia: Discodorididae) with descriptions of five new species. The Veliger. 48(4): 284-308.
4. Dayrat B. 2010. A monographic revision of discodorid sea slugs (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia, Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, vol. 61, suppl. I, 1-403, 382 figs.