Ancula

Ancula
	Two giraffe spot nudibranchs with their egg ribbon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Nudibranchia
Suborder:	Doridina
Superfamily:	Onchidoridoidea
Family:	Goniodorididae
Genus:	Ancula; Lovén, 1846[1]
Type species
	Ancula cristata (Alder, 1841);
Synonyms
	Drepaniella Burn, 1961 (Invalid: junior homonym of Drepaniella del Guercio, 1913 [Hemiptera]; Eucrairia is a replacement name); Eucrairia Burn, 1961 (Replacement name for Drepaniella Burn, 1961, non del Guercio, 1913); Miranda Alder & Hancock, 1847 (not available: not used as a valid name when first established);

Species

Species within the genus Ancula include:[3]

Ancula espinosai Ortea, 2001[4]
Ancula evelinae Er. Marcus, 1961[5]
Ancula fuegiensis Odhner, 1926[6]
Ancula gibbosa (Risso, 1818) - originally described as Tritonia gibbosa Risso, 1818
Ancula kariyana Baba, 1990
Ancula lentiginosa Farmer & Sloan, 1964
Ancula mapae (Burn, 1961)
Ancula sp. Giraffe spot nudibranch[7]

Species names which are currently considered to be synonyms:

Lovén, S. L., (1846). Ofvers. K. VetenskAkad. Förh. Stockh. 3(5): 137.
Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Ancula Lovén, 1846. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138038 on 2016-05-23
Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Ancula Lovén, 1846. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138038 on 2014-12-08
Ortea, J. (2001). "Descripción de una nueva especie de Ancula Loven, 1846". Avicenna Supplemento. 4: 49.
Marcus, E. (1961). "Opisthobranchia from North Carolina". Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. 77: 141–151.
Odhner, N.H. (1926). "Die Opisthobranchien". Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1903. 2 (1): 1–100.
Gosliner, T.M. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa ISBN 0-930118-13-8
Alder, J. (1841). "Observations on the genus Polycera of Cuvier, with descriptions of two new British species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6 (38): 337–342. doi:10.1080/03745484109442937.

Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.

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