Asperspina is a genus of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks within the clade Acochlidiacea.
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| Family: | Asperspinidae Rankin, 1979
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| Genus: | Asperspina Rankin, 1979 [1]
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Taxonomy
editAsperspinidae has been listed as a synonym of Parhedylidae in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).[3]
Sensu Schrödl & Neusser (2010)[2] is Asperspina is the only genus in the family Asperspinidae.[2] Minicheviellidae is a junior synonym of Asperspinidae.[2]
Species
editSpecies within the genus Asperspina include:
- Asperspina brambelli (Swedmark, 1968)[2]
- Asperspina murmanica (Kudinskaya & Minichev, 1978)[2] - synonym: Minicheviella murmanica (Kuchinskaja & Minichev, 1978)
- Asperspina rhopalotecta Salvini-Plawen, 1973[2]
- Asperspina loricata (Swedmark, 1968)[2]
- Asperspina riseri (Morse, 1976)[2]
References
edit- ^ Rankin, Jessie J. (1979). "A freshwater shell-less Mollusc from the Caribbean: Structure, biotics and contribution to a new understanding of the Acochlidioidea". Life Sciences Contributions, Royal Ontario Museum. 116. Royal Ontario Museum: 1–123, at 103. Retrieved Jun 19, 2016. Uploaded by Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 124-154. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00544.x.
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
Further reading
edit- "Heartless and primitive? 3D reconstruction of the polar acochlidian gastropod Asperspina murmanica". doi:10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00342.x
- Hochberg R. (2007). "Serotonin-like Immunoreactivity in the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems of the Interstitial Acochlidean Asperspina sp. (Opisthobranchia)". Biological Bulletin 213: 43-54. HTM.