Noumea (gastropod)

Noumea
A live individual of Verconia romeri, in situ, head end towards the lower left
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Chromodorididae
Genus: Noumea
Risbec, 1928[1]
Type species
Noumea romeri Risbec, 1928
Synonyms

Verconia Pruvot-Fol, 1931

Noumea was previously a genus of colorful sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae.[2]

Noumea Risbec, 1928 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) is a junior homonym of Noumea Fauvel, 1874 (Arthropoda: Coleoptera), a name in current use. Verconia Pruvot-Fol, 1931 was recognized as a synonym of Noumea Risbec by Johnson & Gosliner (2012) and is here used for species of the chromodoridid group previously known as Noumea. [2] [3]

Species

Species in the genus Noumea include:[4]

All these have become synonyms in the genus Verconia.

Species brought into synonymy:

References

  1. Risbec (1928). Faune Colonies franç., 2, fasc. 1: 165.
  2. 1 2 Caballer, M.; Bouchet, P. (2011). Noumea Risbec, 1928. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206191 on 22 April 2012
  3. ohnson 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
  4. http://www.seaslugforum.net/search.cfm?searchstring=Noumea
  5. Gosliner T. M. (1994). "New species of Chromodoris and Noumea (Nudibranch: Chromodorididae) from the Western Indian Ocean and Southern Africa". Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 12 48:239-252

Further reading

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

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