Coryphella
| Coryphella | |
|---|---|
| Coryphella verrucosa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidacea |
| Superfamily: | Flabellinoidea |
| Family: | Coryphellidae Bergh, 1889[1] |
| Genus: | Coryphella M.E. Gray, 1850[2] |
Coryphella is a genus of sea slugs, specifically aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Coryphellidae.[3]
Taxonomy
[edit]Coryphella was originally described in an 1850 paper, and included three original species; Coryphella landsburgii, Coryphella rufobranchialis, and Coryphella pellucida.[2] The family Coryphellidae was first established in 1889 by Rudolph Bergh,[1] and was re-established in a 2017 study.[4] Molecular studies have found that many existing genera were actually synonymous with Coryphella, leading to many genera being merged.[5] However, these studies had failed to take morphological analysis into account, the "lumping" of several genera under Coryphella leading to loss of differentiation. Thus in a 2025 study[6], after full molecular and morphological analysis, the genus Coryphella was restricted, previously synonymized genera reinstated, and two new genera established.
Species
[edit]According to Korshunova et al. (2025), species within the genus Coryphella are as follows[6]:
- Coryphella longicaudata O'Donoghue, 1922
- Coryphella pseudoverrucosa Martynov, Sanamyan & Korshunova, 2015
- Coryphella verrucosa M. Sars, 1829
Genus incertae sedis currently under Coryphella include[6][3]:
- Coryphella abei Baba, 1987
- Coryphella alderi Adams, 1861
- Coryphella pallida A. E. Verrill, 1900
- Coryphella subrosacea Eschscholtz, 1831
- Coryphella verrucosa, spawn, Gulen Dive Resort, Norway
- Coryphella verrucosa, Gulen Dive Resort, Norway
- Coryphella verrucosa, British Columbia
- Coryphella verrucosa, Kenai Fjords national Park, Alaska
Species currently brought into synonymy[6][3]:
- Coryphella albomarginata M. C. Miller, 1971: synonym of Coryphellina albomarginata
- Coryphella alexanderi Ekimova, 2022: synonym of Corrupta alexanderi
- Coryphella amabilis (Hirano & Kuzirian, 1991): synonym of Microchlamylla amabilis
- Coryphella athadona Bergh, 1875: synonym of Occidenthella athadona
- Coryphella beaumonti Eliot, 1906: synonym of Cumanotus beaumonti
- Coryphella borealis Odhner, 1922: synonym of Gulenia borealis
- Coryphella bostoniensis Couthouy, 1838: synonym of Facelina bostoniensis
- Coryphella browni Picton, 1980: synonym of Fjordia browni
- Coryphella californica Bergh, 1904: synonym of Flabellinopsis iodinea J. G. Cooper, 1863
- Coryphella capensis Thiele, 1925: synonym of Fjordia capensis
- Coryphella chriskaugei (Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017): synonym of Fjordia chriskaugei
- Coryphella cooperi Cockerell, 1901: synonym of Orienthella cooperi
- Coryphella cynara Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967: synonym of Kynaria cynara
- Coryphella dushia Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963: synonym of Flabellina dushia
- Coryphella falklandica Eliot, 1907: synonym of Itaxia falklandica
- Coryphella fisheri MacFarland, 1966: synonym of accepted as Orienthella trilineata (O'Donoghue, 1921)
- Coryphella fogata Millen & Hermosillo, 2007: synonym of Orienthella fogata
- Coryphella fusca O'Donoghue, 1921: synonym of Himatina trophina Bergh, 1890
- Coryphella gracilis Alder & Hancock, 1844: synonym of Microchlamylla gracilis
- [Coryphella insolita García-Gómez & Cervera, 1989: synonym of Fjordia insolita
- Coryphella islandica Odhner, 1937: synonym of Paracoryphella islandica
- Coryphella japonica Volodchenko, 1941: synonym of Ziminella japonica
- Coryphella laevidens Knipowitsch, 1902: synonym of Ziminella salmonacea Couthouy, 1838
- Coryphella lineata (Lovén, 1846): synonym of Fjordia lineata Lovén, 1846
- Coryphella mananensis W. Stimpson, 1853: synonym of Coryphella verrucosa M. Sars, 1829
- Coryphella monicae Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017: synonym of Gulenia monicae
- Coryphella nobilis A. E. Verrill, 1880: synonym of Borealea nobilis
- Coryphella orjani Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017: synonym of Gulenia orjani
- Coryphella ornata Risbec, 1928: synonym of Samla bicolor Kelaart, 1858
- Coryphella parva M. Hadfield, 1963: synonym of Paracoryphella parva
- Coryphella pedata Montagu, 1816: synonym of Edmundsella pedata
- Coryphella pellucida Alder & Hancock, 1843: synonym of Carronella pellucida
- Coryphella piunca Er. Marcus, 1981: synonym of Orienthella trilineata O'Donoghue, 1921
- Coryphella polaris Volodchenko, 1946: synonym of Polaria polaris
- Coryphella pricei MacFarland, 1966: synonym of Apata pricei
- Coryphella robusta Trinchese, 1874: synonym of Coryphella verrucosa M. Sars, 1829
- Coryphella rufibranchialis G. Johnston, 1832: synonym of Coryphella verrucosa M. Sars, 1829
- Coryphella rutila Verrill, 1879: synonym of Carronella pellucida Alder & Hancock, 1843
- [Coryphella salmonacea Couthouy, 1838: synonym of Ziminella salmonacea
- Coryphella sanamyanae (Korshunova, Martynov, Bakken, Evertsen, Fletcher, Mudianta, Saito, Lundin, Schrödl & Picton, 2017): synonym of Borealea sanamyanae
- Coryphella sarsi Friele, 1903: synonym of Borealea nobilis A. E. Verrill, 1880
- Coryphella stimpsoni A. E. Verrill, 1879: synonym of Ziminella salmonacea Couthouy, 1838
- Coryphella trilineata O'Donoghue, 1921: synonym of Orienthella trilineata
- Coryphella trophina Bergh, 1890: synonym of Himatina trophina
- Coryphella verta Ev. Marcus, 1970: synonym of Orienthella verta
References
[edit]- 1 2 Winckworth, R. (21 May 1946). "On Bergh's Malacologische Untersuchungen". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 27 (1): 1038 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- 1 2 Gray, Maria Emma; Gray, John Edward (1859). Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Vol. 4. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. p. 109. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10461. OCLC 9597391 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- 1 2 3 Bouchet, P. (2019) Coryphella J. E. Gray, 1850. MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2026-05-05
- ↑ Korshunova, T.; Martynov, A.; Bakken, T.; Evertsen, J.; Fletcher, K.; Mudianta, W.; Saito, H.; Lundin, K.; Schrödl, M.; Picton, B. (2017). Polyphyly of the traditional family Flabellinidae affects a major group of Nudibranchia: aeolidacean taxonomic reassessment with descriptions of several new families, genera, and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys. 717: 1-139.
- ↑ Ekimova, Irina; Valdés, Ángel; Malaquias, Manuel António E; Rauch, Cessa; Chichvarkhin, Anton; Mikhlina, Anna; Antokhina, Tatiana; Chichvarkhina, Olga; Schepetov, Dimitry (16 March 2022). "High-level taxonomic splitting in allopatric taxa causes confusion downstream: a revision of the nudibranch family Сoryphellidae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 196 (1): 215–249. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab109.
- 1 2 3 4 Korshunova T.; Fletcher K.; Martynov A. (2025). The endless forms are the most differentiated—how taxonomic pseudo-optimization masked natural diversity and evolution: the nudibranch case Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Volume 204, Issue 4, August 2025.