Geitodoris perfossa Ortea, 1990
Superdomain | Biota | |
Kingdom | Animalia | |
Phylum | Mollusca | |
Class | Gastropoda | |
Subclass | Heterobranchia | |
Infraclass | Euthyneura | |
Subterclass | Ringipleura | |
Superorder | Nudipleura | |
Order | Nudibranchia | |
Suborder | Doridina | |
Infraorder | Doridoidei | |
Superfamily | Doridoidea | |
Family | Discodorididae | |
Genus | Geitodoris | |
Species | Geitodoris perfossa Ortea, 1990 | |
| Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 139579). | ||
Biology
Etymology
- Geitodoris. From Greek “geitonos”, neighbor (meaning close or similar) + “Doris”, in Greek mythology, the wife of Nereus, a sea nymph and mother of the Nereids.
- Perfossa. From Latin “perfodere”, to drill a hole, bored, because of the holes in the mantle.
Distribution
| Sources: | |
 : OBIS : GROC 2010-2011 : Enric Madrenas : João Pedro Silva : Bernard Picton : GBIF.ORG |  : OPK : VIMAR : Manuel Ballesteros. : M@re Nostrum : Altres fonts : Marine Regions |
References for the species: Geitodoris perfossa
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[includeme] shortcode. This message is shown only to administrators.Sources: Cervera et al., 2004, Ballesteros, 2007 & 2016, McDonald, 2006 and other sources.Abundance
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Bibliography
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Flanders Marine Institute. 2018. Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas. Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. (http://www.marineregions.org/).
Garcia, F. J., and H. Bertsch. 2009. Diversity and distribution of the Gastropoda Opisthobranchia from the Atlantic Ocean: A global biogeographic approach. Scientia Marina. 73: 153–160.
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McDonald, G. 2009. Bibliographia Nudibranchia. 2nd Online Edition, Annotated. 1072 pp Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz. (http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8115h0wz).
Miller, M. C. 1996. A new species of the dorid nudibranch genus Geitodoris Bergh, 1892 (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) from New Zealand. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 62: 433–442.
Moro, L., J. L. Martín Esquivel, M. J. Garrido Sanahuja, and I. Izquierdo Zamora. 2003. Lista de especies marinas de Canarias (algas, hongos, plantas y animales). Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias.
Ortea, J. 1990. El género Geitodoris Bergh, 1894 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en las islas Canarias. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 2: 99-121.
Ortea, J., L. Moro, and J. J. Bacallado. 2015. Babosas Marinas Canarias. Turquesa Ediciones.
Ortea, J., L. Moro, and J. Espinosa. 2019. Resultados de la expedición Mirpuri-2019 a la isla de Sal, Cabo Verde: nuevas citas y nuevos datos de lesmas do mar (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Avicennia. 25: 47–60.
Ortea, J. A., L. Moro, J. J. Bacallado, and R. Herrera. 2001. Catálogo actualizado de los Moluscos Opistobranquios de las Islas Canarias. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias. 12: 105–136.
Valdés, A., and V. Heros. 1998. The types of Recent and certain fossil opisthobranch molluscs in the Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Zoosystema 20(4):695-742.
Wirtz, P. 1995. Unterwasserführer Madeira, Kanarean, Azoren. Delius Klasing, Edition Naglschmid, Stuttgart, Germany.
Wirtz, P. 1999. Opisthobranch Molluscs from the archipelago of Madeira. Vita Marina. 46: 1–18.
Wirtz, P., and H. Debelius. 2003. Mediterranean and Atlantic invertebrate guide. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany.
WoRMS Editorial Board. 2022. World Register of Marine Species. WoRMS. (http://www.marinespecies.org).
Further reading
Cite this article as:
Ballesteros, M., Madrenas, E. & Pontes, M. (2022) "Geitodoris perfossa" in OPK-Opistobranquis. Published: 22/02/2015. Accessed: 29/09/2022. Available at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/08tvp)
