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Tayuva confusa<\/em> (Ballesteros, Llera & Ortea, 1985)<\/h3>\n

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Tayuva confusa @ Gran Canaria<\/em> by Mario Matute<\/center><\/span>

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WoRMS Taxonomic Information<\/h3>
Current accepted name: Tayuva confusa<\/em> (Ballesteros, Llera & Ortea, 1985)<\/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>Doridoidea<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Family<\/th>Discodorididae<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Genus<\/th>Tayuva<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Species<\/th>Tayuva confusa<\/em> (Ballesteros, Llera & Ortea, 1985)<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>

Classification provided by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). [1791535<\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Taxonomic note:<\/strong> Ortea, P\u00e9rez and Bacallado (1981) indicated that Disc\u043edoris confusa<\/em> was identified with the Indo-Pacific species D. fragilis<\/em> (Alder & Hancock, 1864) because they have a very similar external morphology (colour, rhinophores, gills, mantle ornamentation, etc.) and also because they have similar anatomical details such as the labial armour, the radula and the structure of the genital apparatus. Dr. Edmunds sent to these authors some specimens of D. fragilis<\/em> collected in Tanzania that allowed Ballesteros et al. (1985) to verify that there are some internal anatomical differences between the mentioned species. Later, the thorough revision of the Discodorididae by Dayrat (2010), based on morphological and internal anatomy characters, brought to light the existence of synonymous species from different seas around the world and reduced the number of valid species within the Discodorididae family. Such was the case of Discodoris maculosa<\/em>, a well-known Mediterranean species that was included in the species\u00a0Tayuva lilacina<\/em>, a species with a very wide circumtropical distribution and in temperate seas such as the Mediterranean. However, new molecular phylogenetic studies revealed that\u00a0Tayuva lilacina<\/em>\u00a0was a rather complex of different species masked with a very similar morphology. This point has been demonstrated by the recent work of Fern\u00e1ndez-Vilert et al (2025) in which, after genetically analysing various specimens of\u00a0Tayuva<\/em>\u00a0from different parts of the world, they discovered four different cryptic groups, proposing the transfer of the Mediterranean specimens, which correspond to\u00a0Discodoris maculosa<\/em>\u00a0Bergh, 1884 to the new combination\u00a0Tayuva maculosa<\/em>, and the specimens from the north-eastern Atlantic, which correspond to\u00a0Discodoris confusa<\/em>\u00a0Ballesteros, Llera and Ortea, 1985 are resurrected as the new combination\u00a0Tayuva confusa<\/em>. Fern\u00e1ndez-Vilert et al (2025) also comment that the genus\u00a0Peltodoris<\/em>\u00a0forms a clade very close to\u00a0Tayuva<\/em>, documenting several cases of previous synonymies of species initially classified as\u00a0Peltodoris<\/em>, for which reason they propose obtaining more genomic information to study these groups and their possible synonymy.<\/p>\n

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