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Discodoris hummelincki (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963)

763034  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:763034)

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(of Peltodoris hummelincki Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963) Marcus, Ev. du Bois-Reymond & Marcus, Er. (1963). Opistobranchs from the Lesser Antilles. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and Other Caribbean Islands: no 79.</em> 19(1): 1-76., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506042 [details]   
Taxonomy Dayrat (2010) places this species in the genus Tayuva Marcus & Marcus, 1967 (type species by original designation: Tayuva...  
Taxonomy Dayrat (2010) places this species in the genus Tayuva Marcus & Marcus, 1967 (type species by original designation: Tayuva ketos Marcus & Marcus, 1967, from Pacific coast of Mexico) on the basis of a synapomorphy “a muscular wall in the distal portion of the reproductive system”. Discodoris lilacina in the current sense (e.g. Valdés, 2002) is indicated as “Tayuva lilacina of tropical Indo-West Pacific”, and several worldwide species currently recognized as valid are subsumed: Tayuva ketos as “Tayuva lilacina of Panamic Eastern Pacific” (contra Valdés, 2002 who holds Tayuva as a synonym of Discodoris and Discodoris ketos (Marcus & Marcus, 1967) as a valid species); Peltodoris hummelincki Marcus & Marcus, 1963 as “Tayuva lilacina of the Caribbean Sea”; Discodoris maculosa Bergh, 1884 as “Tayuva lilacina of the Mediterranean and Eastern European Atlantic”. Dayrat nevertheless acknowledges (p. 78) that “The name T. lilacina, as used here, likely refers to a species complex”. Alternatively these could be treated as valid species under Discodoris, following Valdés' (2002) view. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Discodoris hummelincki (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=763034 on 2024-03-19
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original description  (of Peltodoris hummelincki Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963) Marcus, Ev. du Bois-Reymond & Marcus, Er. (1963). Opistobranchs from the Lesser Antilles. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and Other Caribbean Islands: no 79.</em> 19(1): 1-76., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506042 [details]   

new combination reference Alvim J. & Pimenta A.D. 2013. Taxonomic review of the family Discodorididae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) from Brazil, with descriptions of two new species. <i>Zootaxa</i>, 3745(2): 152-198 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Taxonomy Dayrat (2010) places this species in the genus Tayuva Marcus & Marcus, 1967 (type species by original designation: Tayuva ketos Marcus & Marcus, 1967, from Pacific coast of Mexico) on the basis of a synapomorphy “a muscular wall in the distal portion of the reproductive system”. Discodoris lilacina in the current sense (e.g. Valdés, 2002) is indicated as “Tayuva lilacina of tropical Indo-West Pacific”, and several worldwide species currently recognized as valid are subsumed: Tayuva ketos as “Tayuva lilacina of Panamic Eastern Pacific” (contra Valdés, 2002 who holds Tayuva as a synonym of Discodoris and Discodoris ketos (Marcus & Marcus, 1967) as a valid species); Peltodoris hummelincki Marcus & Marcus, 1963 as “Tayuva lilacina of the Caribbean Sea”; Discodoris maculosa Bergh, 1884 as “Tayuva lilacina of the Mediterranean and Eastern European Atlantic”. Dayrat nevertheless acknowledges (p. 78) that “The name T. lilacina, as used here, likely refers to a species complex”. Alternatively these could be treated as valid species under Discodoris, following Valdés' (2002) view. [details]