Doriopsilla is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Dendrodorididae.Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. (1999). Phylogeny of the radula-less dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and a new family. Zoologica Scripta 28: 315-360
Description Doriopsilla and Dendrodoris are genera which have frequently been confused, partly because both lack a radula. They feed by dissolving their sponge food externally, using enzymes, and then ingesting sponge cells without the sponge skeleton. They share this loss of the radula and method of feeding with the Phyllidiidae but look more like other Dorid nudibranchs in having a rosette of gills surrounding a dorsal anus, whilst Phyllidiidae have the gills located beneath the edge of the mantle.
Species Species so far described in this genus include:Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Doriopsilla Bergh, 1880. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-13.
Doriopsilla albopunctata (J.G. Cooper, 1863) Doriopsilla areolata (Bergh, 1880) Doriopsilla aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) Doriopsilla bertschi Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015 Doriopsilla capensis Bergh, 1907 Doriopsilla carneola (Angas, 1864) Doriopsilla davebehrensi Hoover, Lindsay, Goddard & Valdés, 2015 Doriopsilla debruini Perrone, 2001 Doriopsilla elitae Valdés & Hamann, 2008 Doriopsilla espinosai Valdés & Ortea, 1998 Doriopsilla fulva (MacFarland, 1905) Doriopsilla gemela Gosliner, Schaefer & Millen, 1999 Doriopsilla janaina Marcus and Marcus, 1967 Doriopsilla miniata (Alder and Hancock, 1864) Doriopsilla nigrocera Yonow, 2012 Doriopsilla nigrolineata Meyer, 1977 Doriopsilla pallida Bergh, 1902 Doriopsilla peculiaris (Abraham, 1877) Doriopsilla pelseneeri Oliviera, 1895 Doriopsilla pharpa Er. Marcus, 1961 Doriopsilla rowena Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1967 Doriopsilla spaldingi Valdes & Behrens, 1998 Doriopsilla tishae Valdés & Hamann, 2008
Species brought into synonymy Doriopsilla ciminoi Avila, Ballesteros & Ortea, 1992 accepted as Doriopsilla areolata Bergh, 1880 Doriopsilla fedalae Pruvot-Fol. 1953 : synonym of Doriopsilla areolata Bergh, 1880 Doriopsilla leia Er. Marcus, 1961: synonym of Doriopsilla pharpa Er. Marcus, 1961 Doriopsilla nigromaculata (Cockerell in Coc and Eliot, 1905): synonym of Dendrodoris nigromaculata (Cockerell, 1905) Doriopsilla pusilla Pruvot-Fol, 1951 accepted as Doriopsilla areolata Bergh, 1880 Doriopsilla rarispinosa Pruvot-Fol, 1951 accepted as Doriopsilla areolata Bergh, 1880
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