Pseudovermis

Pseudovermis is genus of minute sea slugs, specifically aolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pseudovermidae.[2][3]

Pseudovermis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia

clade Cladobranchia
Family:
Pseudovermidae
Genus:
Pseudovermis

Perejaslavtseva, 1891[1]

These extremely small sea slugs are meiofauna; they live among sand grains. Pseudovermis means fake worm, because these slugs resemble minute worms.

Species

Species within the genus Pseudovermis include:

  • Pseudovermis artabrensis Urgorri, Cobo & Besteiro, 1991
  • Pseudovermis axi Marcus Ev. & Er., 1955
  • Pseudovermis boadeni Salvini-Plawen & Sterrer, 1968
  • Pseudovermis chinensis Hughes, 1991
  • Pseudovermis hancocki Challis, 1969
  • Pseudovermis indicus Salvini-Plawen & G.C. Rao, 1973
  • Pseudovermis japonicus Hamatani & Nunomura, 1973
  • Pseudovermis kowalewskyi Salvini-Plawen & Sterrer, 1968
  • Pseudovermis mortoni Challis, 1969
  • Pseudovermis papillifer Kowalewsky, 1901
  • Pseudovermis paradoxus Perejaslavtseva, 1891
  • Pseudovermis salamandrops Ev. Marcus, 1953
  • Pseudovermis schultzi Marcus Ev. & Er., 1955
  • Pseudovermis setensis Fize, 1961
  • Pseudovermis soleatus Salvini-Plawen & G.C. Rao, 1973
  • Pseudovermis thompsoni Salvini-Plawen, 1991
Species brought into synonymy
  • Pseudovermis papillifera Kowalevsky, 1901: synonym of Pseudovermis papillifer Kowalewsky, 1901

References
  1. Perejaslavtseva S. (1891). [Additions to the fauna of the Black Sea](in Russian). Trudy Obschschestva Estestvoispytatelei pri Imperatorskom Kharkovskom Universitete, 25: 235-274
  2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Pseudovermis Périaslavzeff, 1891. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-06-03
  3. Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213


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