Favorinus (gastropod)

Favorinus
Favorinus blianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:	Aeolidioidea
Family:	Facelinidae
Genus:	Favorinus M. E. Gray, 1850[1]

Favorinus is a genus of small sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Facelinidae.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Favorinus include:

• Favorinus auritulus Er. Marcus, 1955
• Favorinus blianus Lemche & Thompson, 1974
• Favorinus branchialis (Rathke, 1806)
• Favorinus elenalexiae Garcia F. & Troncoso, 2001
• Favorinus ghanensis Edmunds, 1968
• Favorinus japonicus Baba, 1949
• Favorinus mirabilis Baba, 1955
• Favorinus pacificus Baba, 1937
• Favorinus pannuceus Burn, 1962
• Favorinus perfoliatus Baba, 1949
• Favorinus tsuruganus Baba & Abe, 1964
• Favorinus vitreus Ortea, 1982

Species brought into synonymy

• Favorinus horridus Macnae, 1954: synonym of Phyllodesmium horridum (Macnae, 1954)

References

1. Gray (1850) Figs. Moll. Anim. 4: 109.
2. WoRMS (2012). Favorinus M.E. Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138006 on 2012-06-03

Further reading

• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
• 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
• Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.

External links

• http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz/ Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011) Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone