{"id":10681,"date":"2013-10-05T05:21:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T03:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opistobranquis.info\/?page_id=10681"},"modified":"2023-07-19T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:49:26","slug":"felimida-luteopunctata","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/opistobranquis.info\/en\/guia\/doridida\/doridoidei\/doridoidea\/felimida-luteopunctata\/","title":{"rendered":"Felimida luteopunctata"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Felimida luteopunctata<\/em> (Gant\u00e8s, 1962)<\/h3>\n

\"Felimida<\/div>
Felimida luteopunctata @ Tarifa (Spain)<\/em> by Manuel Mart\u00ednez Chac\u00f3n<\/center><\/span>

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WoRMS Taxonomic Information<\/h3>
Current accepted name: Felimida luteopunctata<\/em> (Gant\u00e8s, 1962)<\/strong><\/div>

Current classification<\/h4>
Superdomain<\/th>Biota<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Kingdom<\/th>Animalia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Phylum<\/th>Mollusca<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Class<\/th>Gastropoda<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Subclass<\/th>Heterobranchia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Infraclass<\/th>Euthyneura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Subterclass<\/th>Ringipleura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Superorder<\/th>Nudipleura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Order<\/th>Doridida<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Infraorder<\/th>Doridoidei<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Superfamily<\/th>Chromodoridoidea<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Family<\/th>Chromodorididae<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Subfamily<\/th>Chromodoridinae<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Genus<\/th>Felimida<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Species<\/th>Felimida luteopunctata<\/em> (Gant\u00e8s, 1962)<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>

Classification provided by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). [597449<\/a>]<\/p><\/div>

Taxonomic note: <\/strong>The European Atlantic and Mediterranean species of the genus Chromodoris<\/em> and Hypselodoris<\/em> have been reconsidered. After molecular analysis of the Chromodorididae performed by Johnson & Gosliner (2012, Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs<\/a>. PLoS ONE 7(4): 33479) the Hypselodoris<\/em> species have been included in the genus Felimare<\/em> Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967 and the Chromodoris<\/em> species have been included in the genus Felimida<\/em> Ev. Marcus, 1971.<\/p>A long time controversy exists\u00a0over the specimens of Felimida luteopunctata<\/em> and Felimida luteorosea<\/em>\u00a0cited in the Canary Islands. Since the description of Felimida rodomaculata<\/em> by Ortea and Vald\u00e9s (1992), the anatomy and colour patterns compared with the other Atlantic species of the “Felimida luteorosea<\/em>” group (Felimida luteorosea, Felimida luteopunctata<\/em> and Felimida rolani<\/em>) it was determined as a distinct species. However, in January 2001, Dr. \u00c1ngel Vald\u00e9s (the second author of the original work) posted a comment in Sea Slug Forum\u00a0<\/a>regarding Felimida rodomaculata<\/em> being just a color variant of Felimida luteopunctata<\/em>, the rest of anatomical details being essentially identical. Cervera et al. (2004) support this opinion considering Felimida rodomaculata<\/em> a junior synonym of Felimida luteopunctata<\/em>,\u00a0since the colour differences used to establish the former were very weak. Ortea et al. (2011), the first author of the original article, refuted these opinions based on the fact that they\u00a0obviated the diferent radular anatomy\u00a0of both species. Furthermore, Ortea stated that all Canarian reports of Felimida luteorosea<\/em> and Felimida luteopunctata<\/em> are invalid and that Felimida rodomaculata<\/em> is the only valid species in the Canary Islands, where it would be endemic. However, the results of the genetic analysis presented in the work by Moles & Riesgo (2019) on the supposed Felimida rodomaculata<\/em> indicate that this species is, in fact, a chromatic variation of Felimida luteopunctata<\/em> and, therefore, it is not a different species.<\/p>\n

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