Doriopsilla

Doriopsilla is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Dendrodorididae.[2]

Not to be confused with Drosophila.

Doriopsilla
Doriopsilla albopunctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea
Superfamily:
Phyllidioidea
Family:
Dendrodorididae
Genus:
Doriopsilla

Bergh, 1880[1]

Description

Doriopsilla and Dendrodoris are genera which have frequently been confused, partly because both lack a radula. They feed by dissolving their sponge food externally, using enzymes, and then ingesting sponge cells without the sponge skeleton. They share this loss of the radula and method of feeding with the Phyllidiidae but look more like other Dorid nudibranchs in having a rosette of gills surrounding a dorsal anus, whilst Phyllidiidae have the gills located beneath the edge of the mantle.

Species

Species so far described in this genus include:[3]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Doriopsilla ciminoi Avila, Ballesteros & Ortea, 1992 accepted as Doriopsilla areolata Bergh, 1880
  • Doriopsilla fedalae Pruvot-Fol. 1953 : synonym of Doriopsilla areolata Bergh, 1880
  • Doriopsilla leia Er. Marcus, 1961: synonym of Doriopsilla pharpa Er. Marcus, 1961
  • Doriopsilla nigromaculata (Cockerell in Coc and Eliot, 1905): synonym of Dendrodoris nigromaculata (Cockerell, 1905)
  • Doriopsilla pusilla Pruvot-Fol, 1951 accepted as Doriopsilla areolata Bergh, 1880
  • Doriopsilla rarispinosa Pruvot-Fol, 1951 accepted as Doriopsilla areolata Bergh, 1880

References
  1. Bergh R. (1880). Jahrb. dtsch. malakozool. Ges. 7: 316.
  2. Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. (1999). Phylogeny of the radula-less dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and a new family. Zoologica Scripta 28: 315-360
  3. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Doriopsilla Bergh, 1880. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-13.


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