Atagema

Atagema is a genus of sea slugs, specifically dorid nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Discodorididae.^[3][4]

Atagema
Atagema rugosa on the Atlantic Coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Discodorididae
Genus:	Atagema Gray, 1850[1]
Synonyms
Glossodoridiformia O'Donoghue, 1927[2] Petelodoris Bergh, 1882[2] Phlegmodoris Bergh, 1878[2] Trippa Bergh, 1877[2]

Species

Species so far described in this genus include:^[3][5]

• Atagema alba (O'Donoghue, 1927) hunchback doris
• Atagema albata (Burn, 1962)
• Atagema anceps (Bergh, 1890)
• Atagema boucheti Valdés & Gosliner, 2001
• Atagema browni T. E. Thompson, 1980
• Atagema carinata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - type species
• Atagema echinata (Pease, 1860)
• Atagema gibba Pruvot-Fol, 1951
• Atagema intecta (Kelaart, 1858)
• Atagema molesta (M. C. Miller, 1989)
• Atagema notacristata Camacho-Garcia & Gosliner, 2008
• Atagema ornata (Ehrenberg, 1831)
• Atagema osseosa Kelaart, 1859
• Atagema rugosa Pruvot-Fol, 1951 rugby-ball dorid, spined dorid
• Atagema scabriuscula (Pease, 1860)
• Atagema sobanovae (Innabi et al., 2023)
• Atagema spinosa (Risbec, 1928)
• Atagema spongiosa (Kelaart, 1858)
• Atagema triphylla (Bergh, 1892)
• Atagema tristis (Alder & Hancock, 1864)

Species inquerenda

• Atagema africana Pruvot-Fol, 1953

synonyms

• Atagema hispida (d'Orbigny, 1834): synonym of Diaulula hispida (d'Orbigny, 1834)
• Atagema prea (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967) is a synonym of Sclerodoris prea (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)
• Atagema quadrimaculata Collier, 1963: synonym of Atagema alba (O'Donoghue, 1927)

References

1. Gray, J.E. in Gray, M.E. (1850). Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors, etched for the use of students, vol. 4, pp. 1-124. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London.
2. Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. (2001). Systematics and phylogeny of the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133(2): 103-198
3. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Atagema Gray, 1850. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137659 on 2016-07-13
4. Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
5. Innabi, Julie; Stout, Carla C.; Valdés, Ángel (2023-03-07). "Seven new "cryptic" species of Discodorididae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) from New Caledonia". ZooKeys (1152): 45–95. Bibcode:2023ZooK.1152...45I. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1152.98258. ISSN 1313-2970.