{"id":14405,"date":"2014-09-14T22:17:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T20:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opistobranquis.info\/?page_id=14405"},"modified":"2018-02-16T22:53:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T21:53:52","slug":"eubranchus-tricolor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/opistobranquis.info\/en\/guia\/nudibranchia\/cladobranchia\/fionoidea\/eubranchus-tricolor\/","title":{"rendered":"Eubranchus tricolor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eubranchus tricolor<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Forbes, 1838<\/h3>\n

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Eubranchus tricolor @ Norway<\/em> by Viktor Vasskog Gr\u00f8tan<\/center><\/span>

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WoRMS Taxonomic Information<\/h3>
Current accepted name: Eubranchus tricolor<\/em> Forbes, 1838<\/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>Nudibranchia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Suborder<\/th>Cladobranchia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Superfamily<\/th>Fionoidea<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Family<\/th>Eubranchidae<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Genus<\/th>Eubranchus<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Species<\/th>Eubranchus tricolor<\/em> Forbes, 1838<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>

Classification provided by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). [139771<\/a>]<\/p><\/div>

Taxonomic note<\/strong>: The phylogenetic analyses performed by Cella et al. (2016) revealed that the traditional Tergipedidae family is polyphyletic and belongs to a larger monophyletic clade including members of the traditional families Eubranchidae, Fionidae and Calmidae; this was an unexpected result, since the validity of these taxa and their distinctness from the Tergipedidae was never questioned before. They proposed to join the families Tergipedidae, Eubranchidae, Calmidae and Fionidae under the name of Fionidae. This decision has been reinterpreted and completed in the paper by Korshunova et al. (2017) because it obviated evident morphological and molecular aspects.<\/p>The Mediterranean\u00a0specimens identified as Eubranchus tricolor<\/em>\u00a0are clearly not conspecific to the\u00a0Atlantic specimens, but they are quite similar to Eubranchus farrani<\/em> form \u201cD\u201d, although they could be a new unidentified species (see pictures below).<\/p>\n

Synonyms<\/strong><\/p>\n