Reference List for Nudibranch & Sea Slug Pages

Appeltans W., Bouchet P., Boxshall G.A., De Broyer C., de Voogd N.J., Gordon D.P., Hoeksema B.W., Horton T., Kennedy M., Mees J., Poore
     G..C.B, Read G., Stöhr S., Walter T.C., Costello M.J. (eds) (2015).  World Register of Marine Species.   Last accessed at
     http://www.marinespecies.org on 2024-6-29.

Behrens D.W. (2004). "Pacific Coast Nudibranchs, Supplement II New Species to the Pacific Coast and New Information on the Oldies".
     Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 55(2): 11-54

Behrens D.W., & Hermosillo A. (2005). Eastern Pacific Nudibranchs. Sea Challengers Natural History Books.

Behrens D.W., & Hermosillo A. (2022). Nudibranchs & Sea Slugs of the Eastern Pacific. MolaMarine.

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families".
     Malacologia:  International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: Conchbooks) 47 (1-2): 1-397.          Last accessed at
     http://www.wikipedia.org on 2012-10-30.

Cella K., Carmona L., Ekimova I., Chichvarkhin A., Schepetov D., Gosliner T. (2016). "A Radical Solution:  The Phylogeny of the Nudibranch Family
     Fionidae". PLOSone. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167800

Dayrat B. (2010). "A Monographic Revision of Basal Discodorid Sea Slugs (Mollusca:  Gastropoda:  Nudibranchia: Doridina)". Proceedings of the
     California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, (61) suppl. 1, 1-403.  (This reference is now largely disregarded as it did not follow ICZN rules of taxonomic
       nomenclature.)

Ekimova I., Valdes A., Antonio M., Malaquias E., Rauch C., Chichvarkhin A., Mikhlina A., Antokhina T., Chichvarkhina O., & Schepetov D. (2022)
     "High-level taxonomic splitting in the allopatric taxa causes confusion downstream: a revision of the nudibranch family Coryphellidae".
     Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196: 215-249.

Furfaro G., Trainito E., Fantin M., D'Elia M., Madrenas E. & Mariottini P. (2022). "Mediterranean matters: Revision of the famly Onchidorididae
     (Mollusca, Nudibranchia) with the description of a new genus and a new species". Diversity. 2023: 15: 38.

Ghanimi H., Goddard J.H.R., Chichvarkhin A., Gosliner T.M., Dae-Wui Jung, Valdes, A.  (2020). "An integrative approach to the systematics of the
     Berthella californica species complex (Heterobranchia: Pleurobranchidae)". Journal of Molluscan Studies  00: 1-15.

Hallas, J.M. & Gosliner, T.M. (2015). "Family matters:  The first molecular phylogeny of the Onchidorididae Gray, 1827 (Mollusca, Gastropoda,
     Nudibranchia)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 88 (2015) 16-27.

Hallas J.M., Simison W.B. & Gosliner T.M. (2016). "Dating and biogeographical patterns in the sea slug genus Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 (Mollusca,
     Gastropoda, Nudibranchia)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 97 (2016) 19-31.

Johnson R.F. (2010). "Breaking family ties:  taxon sampling and molecular phylogeny of chromodorid nudibranchs (Mollusca, Gastropoda)".
     Zoologica Scripta 40(2): 137-157.

Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006). Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow:
     KMK Scientific Press. 372pp + 140pls.

Kienberger K., Carmona L., Pola M., Padula V., Gosliner, T.M. & Cervera J.L. (2016). "Aeolidia papillosa (Linnaeus, 1761) (Mollusca:
     Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia), single species or cryptic species complex? A morphological and molecular study". Zoological Journal of the
     Linnean Society 177: 481-506.

Korshunova T., & Martynov A. (2020) "Consolidated data on the phylogeny and evolution of the family Tritoniidae (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia)
     contribute to genera reassessment and clarify the taxonomic status of the neuroscience models Tritonia and Tochuina". PLoS ONE 15(11):
     e0242103. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242103
     
Korshunova T., Martynov A., Bakken T., Evertsen J., Fletcher K., Mudianta W., Saito H., Lundin K. Schrodl 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

Korshunova T., Martynov A., Picton, B. (2017). "Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda:
     Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea". Zootaxa 4324(1): 001-022.

Korshunova T., Sanamyan N., Zimina O., Fletcher K., & Martynov A. (2016) "Two new species and a remarkable record of the genus Dendronotus
     from the North Pacific and Arctic oceans (Nudibranchia)". ZooKeys 630:19-42.

Lamb A. & Hanby B.P. (2005). Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest. Harbor Publishing.

Lindsay, T., Kelly, J., Chichvarkhin, A., Craig, S., Kajihara, H., Mackie, J. & Valdes, A. (2016). "Changing spots: pseudocryptic speciation in the
     North Pacifc dorid nudibranch Diaulula sandiegensis (Cooper, 1863) (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. Sept. 2016.

Lindsay, T. & Valdes, A. (2016). "The Model Organism Hermissenda crassicornis (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) is a Species Complex".
     PLoS ONE 11(4): e0154265.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154265

Martynov, A.V. (2009). "Opisthobranch Mollusca of Russia: the neglected diversity of cold waters". Abstracts and  Papers from the 39th Annual
     Meeting of the Western Society of Malacologists.  The Western Society of Malacologists, Annual Report 39: 22-23.      

Martynov, A.V. & Korshunova, T. (2017) "World's northernmost and rarely observed Nudibranchs: three new Onchidoridid species (Gastropoda:
     Doridida) from Russian seas". Zootaxa 4299(3): 391-404.

Millen, S.V. (1982). "A new species of dorid nudibranch (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) belonging to the genus Anisodoris". Can.J.Zool. 60: 2694-2705.

Millen, S.V. (2006). "A new species of Adalaria (Nudibranchia: Onchidorididae) from the Northeastern Pacific". Proceedings of the California
     Academy of Sciences, (4) 57(8): 357-364.

Morris, R.H., Abbott, D.P. & Haderlie, E.C. (1980). Intertidal Invertebrates of California. Stanford University Press.

Oskars T.R., Bouchet P. & Malaquias M.A.E. (2015). " A new phylogeny of the Cephalaspidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) based on expanded
     taxon sampling and gene markers". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 89(2015) 130-150.
 
Oskars T.R., Malaquias M.A.E. (2019). "A molecular phylogeny of the Indo-West Pacific species of Haloa sensu lato gastropods (Cephalaspidea:
     Haminoeidae):Tethyan vicariance, generic diversity, and ecological specialization". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 139.

Paz-Sedano S., Moles J., Smirnoff D., Gosliner T.M. & Pola M. (2024). "A combined phylogenetic strategy illuminates the evolution of
     Goniodorididae nudibranchs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 192.

Pola M., Hallas, J.M. & Gosliner, T.M. (2019). "Welcome back Janolida and Antiopella: Improving the understanding of  Janolidae and Madrellidae
     (Cladobranchia, Heterobranchia) with description of four new species". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research.    57(2):
     345-368.

Stout C.C., Pola M. & Valdes A. (2010). "Phylogenetic Analysis of Dendronotus Nudibranchs with Emphasis on Northeastern Pacific Species".  
     Journal of Molluscan Studies, 2010, (0): 1-9.

Valdez, A. (2019). "Northeast Pacific benthic shelled sea slugs". Zoosymposia Vol 13: 242-304.

          Special thanks to Sandra Millen and Karin Fletcher for helping us with identifications and the current taxonomy.

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