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)
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Korshunova, Tatiana
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Martynov, Alexander
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Bakken, Torkild
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Evertsen, Jussi
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Fletcher, Karin
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Mudianta, I Wayan
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Saito, Hiroshi
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Lundin, Kennet
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Michael Schroedl,
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Picton, Bernard
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ZooKeys
2017
717
1
139
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.717.21885
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.717.21885
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Borealia
gen. n.
Figs 16, 17
Type
species.
Coryphella nobilis
Verrill, 1880
Etymology.
After boreo (north in Latin) because of the amphiboreal distribution of the two species included.
Diagnosis.
Body wide. Notal ridge present, reduced, continuous. Cerata in continuous rows. Rhinophores wrinkled. Anterior foot corners present. Rachidian teeth with compressed narrow cusp and distinct denticles. Lateral teeth denticulated with attenuated process basally. Separated distal and proximal receptaculum seminis. Moderately long vas deferens expands to narrow penial sheath. Penis narrow, tubular.
Species.
Borealia nobilis
(Verrill, 1880), comb. n. (Fig. 16) (original description in Verril, 1880, detailed redescripton in
Kuzirian 1977
),
Borealia sanamyanae
sp. n. (Fig. 17).
Remarks.
The genus
Borealia
is clearly distinguished from any other
Coryphellidae
by a combination of continuous notal edge, long tubular penis, and compressed cusp of the rachidian radular teeth. In this study we discovered a closely related but clearly distinct (according to molecular data) new species of the genus
Borealia
from the North Pacific which forms separate sister clade to
B. nobilis
(Fig. 1).