Paracoryphella islandica

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Paracoryphella islandica is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Paracoryphellidae.

Paracoryphella islandica
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P. islandica
Binomial name
Paracoryphella islandica
(Odhner, 1937)
Synonyms
  • Coryphella islandica Odhner, 1937
  • Flabellina islandica (Odhner, 1937)

History of the taxonomy

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Paracoryphella islandica was originally described as Coryphella islandica by Nils Hjalmar Odhner in 1937. M. C. Miller (1971)[1] assigned this species to a new genus Paracoryphella within a new family Paracoryphellidae. Gosliner & Kuzirian (1990)[2] synonymized Paracoryphella with Flabellina, but Korshunova et al., 2017 reinstated Miller's genus and family.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Miller M. C. (1971). "Aeolid nudibranchs (Gastropoda:Opisthobranchia) of the families Flabellinidae and Eubranchidae from New Zealand waters". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 50(4): 311-337. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1971.tb00766.x
  2. ^ Gosliner T. M. & Kuzirian A. M. (1990). "Two new species of Flabellinidae (Opisthobranchia: Aeolidacea) from Baja California". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 47: 1-15.
  3. ^ Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Bakken, T.; Evertsen, J.; Fletcher, K.; Mudianta, W.; Saito, H.; Lundin, K.; Schrödl, M.; Picton, B. (2017). Polyphyly of the traditional family Flabellinidae affects a major group of Nudibranchia: aeolidacean taxonomic reassessment with descriptions of several new families, genera, and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys. 717: 1-139.