| Paracoryphella islandica | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Flabellinoidea |
| Family: | Paracoryphellidae |
| Genus: | Paracoryphella |
| Species: | P. islandica |
| Binomial name | |
| Paracoryphella islandica (Odhner, 1937) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Paracoryphella islandica is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Paracoryphellidae.
History of the taxonomy
Paracoryphella islandica was originally described as Coryphella islandica by Nils Hjalmar Odhner in 1937. M. C. Miller (1971) assigned this species to a new genus Paracoryphella within a new family Paracoryphellidae. Gosliner & Kuzirian (1990) synonymized Paracoryphella with Flabellina, but Korshunova et al., 2017 reinstated Miller's genus and family.
References
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Flabellina islandica | |
| Coryphella islandica | |