Felimare

Felimare is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Miamirinae of the family Chromodorididae.[1]

Felimare
Felimare picta on SS Rosslyn, Gibraltar
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Doridina
Infraorder: Doridoidei
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Felimare
Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967
Type species
Felimare bayeri
Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967

Taxonomic history

Felimare was described by Eveline & Ernst Marcus in 1967 but treated as a synonym of Hypselodoris until 2012 when it was brought back into use for an eastern Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean clade revealed by molecular (DNA) techniques.[2]

Species
Species brought into synonymy
  • Felimare ghiselini (Bertsch, 1978): synonym of Felimare californiensis (Bergh, 1879)
  • Felimare midatlantica (Gosliner, 1990): synonym of Felimare tricolor (Cantraine, 1835)
  • Felimare verdensis (Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996): synonym of Felimare tema (Edmunds, 1981)

References
  1. Bouchet, P.; Caballer, M. (2012). Felimare. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-05-01
  2. Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479
  3. Ortigosa D., Pola M., Cervera J. L. (2017). "A new Felimare (Mollusca: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia) of the Atlantic blue chromodorid chromatic group from Cape Verde". Scientia Marina 81(3): 387-394. doi:10.3989/scimar.04594.16A.
  4. Ortigosa, D. & Valdés, A., (2015) A new species of Felimare (formerly Mexichromis)(Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Chromodorididae) from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Nautilus-Sanibel.
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