Armina
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Armina is a genus of sea slugs, specifically nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Arminidae.
Armina loveni is known to prey on pennatulacean octocorals, consuming the polyps of these colonial animals.
Species
Species within the genus Armina include:
- Armina adami (White, 1955)
- Armina aoteana (Miller & Willan, 1986)
- Armina appendiculata Baba, 1949
- Armina babai (Tchang, 1934)
- Armina ballesterosi (Ortea, 1989)
- Armina bayeri (Marcus & Marcus, 1966)
- Armina bilamella Lin, 1981
- Armina californica (J.G. Cooper, 1863)
- Armina capensis (Bergh, 1907)
- Armina cara Marcus, 1971
- Armina carneola (Lim & Chou, 1970)
- Armina cinerea (Farran, 1905)
- Armina comta (Bergh, 1880)
- Armina cordellensis (Gosliner & Behrens, 1996)
- Armina cuvierii (Orbigny, 1837)
- Armina cygnea (Bergh, 1876)
- Armina elongata (Ardila & Valdes, 2004)
- Armina euchroa (Bergh, 1907)
- Armina formosa (Kelaart, 1858)
- Armina gilchristi (White, 1955)
- Armina grisea (O'Donoghue, 1929)
- Armina japonica (Eliot, 1913)
- Armina joia (Marcus & Marcus, 1966)
- Armina juliana (Ardila & Diaz, 2002)
- Armina liouvillei (Pruvot-Fol, 1953)
- Armina longicauda Lin, 1981
- Armina loveni (Bergh, 1866)
- Armina maculata (Rafinesque, 1814)
- Armina magna (Baba, 1955)
- Armina major (Baba, 1949)
- Armina microdonta (Bergh, 1907)
- Armina muelleri (Ihering, 1886)
- Armina natalensis (Bergh, 1866)
- Armina neapolitana (delle Chiaje, 1824)
- Armina occulta Mehrotra, Caballer & Chavanich, 2017
- Armina papillata (Baba, 1933)
- Armina paucifoliata Baba, 1955
- Armina punctilopsis Lin, 1992
- Armina punctilucens (Bergh, 1874)
- Armina punctulata (Lin, 1990)
- Armina rubida (A. Gould, 1852)
- Armina scotti Mehrotra, Caballer & Chavanich, 2017
- Armina semperi (Bergh, 1861)
- Armina serrata (O'Donoghue, 1929)
- Armina simoniana (Thiele, 1925)
- Armina sinensis Lin, 1981
- Armina taeniolata (Bergh, 1860)
- Armina tigrina (Rafinesque, 1814) : type species
- Armina tricuspidata (Thompson, Cattaneo, & Wong, 1990)
- Armina undulata (Meckel, 1823) [citation needed]
- Armina variolosa (Bergh, 1904)
- Armina wattla (Marcus & Marcus, 1967)
- Armina xandra (Marcus & Marcus, 1966)
- Armina sp. Pierre's armina
Species brought into synonymy
- Armina abbotti (Thompson, Cattaneo, & Wong, 1990): synonym of Armina wattla Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967
- Armina columbiana (O'Donoghue, 1924): synonym of Armina californica (J. G. Cooper, 1863)
- Armina convolvula Lance, 1962: synonym of Histiomena marginata (Oersted in Mørch, 1859)
- Armina digueti (Pruvot-Fol, 1955): synonym of Armina californica (J. G. Cooper, 1863)
- Armina henneguyi (Labbé, 1922): synonym of Pleurophyllidia henneguyi Labbé, 1922 (taxon inquirendum)
- Armina mulleri (Ihering, 1886): synonym of Armina muelleri (Ihering, 1886)
- Armina paucidentata (O'Donoghue, 1932): synonym of Pleurophyllidiella paucidentata O'Donoghue, 1932
- Armina pustulosa (Schultz in Philippi, 1836): synonym of Armina maculata Rafinesque, 1814
- Armina vancouverensis (Bergh, 1876): synonym of Armina californica (J. G. Cooper, 1863)
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
- accessed 9 November 2009
- accessed 9 November 2009
External links
- SEM images of the radula can be found at Thompson, T.E.; Bebbington, A. (1973). . Malacologia. 14: 147–165.