TY - JOUR
T1 - Taxonomic revision of the Onchidiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific
AU - Dayrat, Benoît
AU - Zimmermann, Sara
AU - Raposa, Melissa
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to all curators and collection managers for letting us borrow material, especially type specimens. The present study was conducted while both Sara Zimmermann and Melissa Raposa were undergraduate students at UC Merced. This project was supported by a grant from the US National Science Foundation DEB-0933276 (to B. Dayrat). In the summer of 2008, Sara Zimmermann’s training in SEM techniques was also funded through the NSF-NSEC Center Of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS) EEC-0425914 (to Alex Zettl at UC Berkeley and Valerie Leppert at UC Merced).
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - The diversity of air-breathing onchidiid marine slugs is revised for the Tropical Eastern Pacific, or TEP, which extends from the northernmost end of the Gulf of California to the Gulf of Guayaquil, Peru, including nearby oceanic islands such as the Galapagos. Six nominal species exist in the literature for the TEP. Four names are regarded as valid: Onchidella binneyi Stearns, 1894, from Ecuador to the Gulf of California; Onchidella steindachneri (Semper, 1885) and Hoffmannola lesliei (Stearns, 1892), endemic to the Galapagos; Hoffmannola hansi Marcus and Marcus, 1967, endemic to the Gulf of California. Onchidella hildae Hoffmann, 1928 is regarded as a new synonym. Onchidella carpenteri (Binney, 1861) is regarded as a nomen dubium. Our data confirm previous results indicating that the highest rate of endemism in the TEP is found in the Galapagos. The anatomy of valid species is described and compared to other onchidiids.
AB - The diversity of air-breathing onchidiid marine slugs is revised for the Tropical Eastern Pacific, or TEP, which extends from the northernmost end of the Gulf of California to the Gulf of Guayaquil, Peru, including nearby oceanic islands such as the Galapagos. Six nominal species exist in the literature for the TEP. Four names are regarded as valid: Onchidella binneyi Stearns, 1894, from Ecuador to the Gulf of California; Onchidella steindachneri (Semper, 1885) and Hoffmannola lesliei (Stearns, 1892), endemic to the Galapagos; Hoffmannola hansi Marcus and Marcus, 1967, endemic to the Gulf of California. Onchidella hildae Hoffmann, 1928 is regarded as a new synonym. Onchidella carpenteri (Binney, 1861) is regarded as a nomen dubium. Our data confirm previous results indicating that the highest rate of endemism in the TEP is found in the Galapagos. The anatomy of valid species is described and compared to other onchidiids.
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U2 - 10.1080/00222933.2010.545486
DO - 10.1080/00222933.2010.545486
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79953690507
SN - 0022-2933
VL - 45
SP - 939
EP - 1003
JO - Journal of Natural History
JF - Journal of Natural History
IS - 15-16
ER -
