Goniobranchus

Goniobranchus
	Goniobranchus coi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Goniobranchus; (Pease, 1866)
Type species
	Doris vibrata; Pease, 1860
Synonyms
	Lissodoris Odhner, 1934

Goniobranchus is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Chromodorididae.^[2]

Taxonomic history

Goniobranchus was described by Pease in 1866 but treated as a synonym of Chromodoris until 2012 when it was brought back into use for a clade revealed by molecular (DNA) techniques.^[3]^[4]

Species

Species in the genus Goniobranchus include:^[2]

Goniobranchus albomaculatus Pease, 1866
Goniobranchus albonares (Rudman, 1990)
Goniobranchus albopunctatus Garrett, 1879
Goniobranchus albopustulosus (Pease, 1860)
Goniobranchus alderi (Collingwood, 1881)
Goniobranchus alius (Rudman, 1987)
Goniobranchus annulatus (Eliot, 1904)
Goniobranchus aureomarginatus (Cheeseman, 1881)
Goniobranchus aureopurpureus (Collingwood, 1881)
Goniobranchus aurigerus (Rudman, 1990)
Goniobranchus bimaensis (Bergh, 1905)
Goniobranchus bombayanus (Winckworth, 1946)
Goniobranchus cavae (Eliot, 1904)
Goniobranchus cazae (Gosliner & Behrens, 2004)
Goniobranchus charlottae (Schrödl, 1999)
Goniobranchus coi (Risbec, 1956)
Goniobranchus collingwoodi (Rudman, 1987)
Goniobranchus conchyliatus (Yonow, 1984)
Goniobranchus daphne (Angas, 1864)
Goniobranchus decorus (Pease, 1860)
Goniobranchus epicurius (Basedow & Hedley, 1905)
Goniobranchus fabulus (Soong & Gosliner, 2022)^[5]
Goniobranchus fidelis (Kelaart, 1858)
Goniobranchus galactos (Rudman & S. Johnson, 1985)
Goniobranchus geminus (Rudman, 1987)
Goniobranchus geometricus (Risbec, 1928)
Goniobranchus gleniei (Kelaart, 1858)
Goniobranchus heatherae (Gosliner, 1994)
Goniobranchus hintuanensis (Gosliner & Behrens, 1998)
Goniobranchus hunterae (Rudman, 1983)
Goniobranchus kitae (Gosliner, 1994)
Goniobranchus kuniei (Pruvot-Fol, 1930)
Goniobranchus lekker (Gosliner, 1994)
Goniobranchus leopardus (Rudman, 1987)
Goniobranchus loringi (Angas, 1864)
Goniobranchus mandapamensis (Valdés, Mollo & Ortea, 1999)
Goniobranchus multimaculosus (Rudman, 1987)
Goniobranchus obsoletus (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1831)
Goniobranchus petechialis (Gould, 1852)
Goniobranchus preciosus (Kelaart, 1858)
Goniobranchus pruna (Gosliner, 1994)
Goniobranchus pseudodecorus Yonow, 2018
Goniobranchus reticulatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
Goniobranchus roboi (Gosliner & Behrens, 1998)
Goniobranchus rubrocornutus (Rudman, 1985)
Goniobranchus rufomaculatus (Pease, 1871)
Goniobranchus setoensis (Baba, 1938)
Goniobranchus sinensis (Rudman, 1985)
Goniobranchus splendidus (Angas, 1864)
Goniobranchus tasmaniensis (Bergh, 1905)
Goniobranchus tennentanus (Kelaart, 1859)
Goniobranchus tinctorius (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828)
Goniobranchus trimarginatus (Winckworth, 1946)
Goniobranchus tritos (Yonow, 1994)
Goniobranchus tumuliferus (Collingwood, 1881)
Goniobranchus verrieri (Crosse, 1875)
Goniobranchus vibratus (Pease, 1860)
Goniobranchus woodwardae (Rudman, 1983)

Species brought into synonymy

Goniobranchus godeffroyanus (Bergh, 1877): synonym of Hypselodoris godeffroyana (Bergh, 1977)
Goniobranchus naiki (Valdés, Mollo & Ortea, 1999): synonym of Goniobranchus bombayanus (Winckworth, 1946)