Diaulula

Diaulula
A pair of Diaulula sandiegensis mating.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily:	Doridoidea
Family:	Discodorididae
Genus:	Diaulula Bergh, 1878[1]
Synonyms
Anisodoris Bergh, 1898 Ansiodoris [sic] (misspelling)

Diaulula is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Discodorididae.

Species

Species in the genus Diaulula include:

• Diaulula alba (K. White, 1952)
• Diaulula aurila (Ev. & Er. Marcus, 1967)^[2]
• Diaulula cerebralis Valdes, 2001
• Diaulula farmersi Valdés, 2004
• Diaulula flindersi (Burn, 1962)
• Diaulula greeleyi (MacFarland, 1909)^[2]
• Diaulula hispida (d'Orbigny, 1837)
• Diaulula immaculata Valdes, 2001
• Diaulula lentiginosa (Millen, 1982)
• Diaulula nayarita (Ortea & Llera, 1981)
• Diaulula nivosa Valdés & Bertsch, 2010
• Diaulula odonoghuei Steinberg, 1963
• Diaulula phoca (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
• Diaulula punctuolata (d'Orbigny, 1837)
• Diaulula sandiegensis (J. G. Cooper, 1863)
• Diaulula variolata (d'Orbigny, 1837)

Species brought into synonymy

• Diaulula gigantea Bergh, 1905: synonym of Sebadoris nubilosa (Pease, 1871)
• Diaulula hummelincki (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963) : synonym of Discodoris hummelincki (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963) synonym of as Tayuva lilacina (Gould, 1852)
• Diaulula nobilis (MacFarland, 1905): synonym of Montereina nobilis MacFarland, 1905: synonym of Peltodoris nobilis (MacFarland, 1905)

References

• Valdés Á. (2002). A phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of the cryptobranch dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Anthobranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 136: 535-636.