Asperspina

Asperspina is a genus of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks within the clade Acochlidiacea.

Asperspina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Acochlidiacea clade Microhedylacea
Family:	Asperspinidae Rankin, 1979
Genus:	Asperspina Rankin, 1979 [1]
Diversity[2]
5 species
Synonyms
Anademaria Rankin, 1979 Antemnella Rankin, 1979 Minicheviellidae Starobogatov, 1983 Minicheviella Starobogatov, 1983

Taxonomy

Asperspinidae has been listed as a synonym of Parhedylidae in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).^[3]

Sensu Schrödl & Neusser (2010)^[2] is Asperspina is the only genus in the family Asperspinidae.^[2] Minicheviellidae is a junior synonym of Asperspinidae.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Asperspina include:

• Asperspina brambelli (Swedmark, 1968)^[2]
• Asperspina murmanica (Kudinskaya & Minichev, 1978)^[2] - synonym: Minicheviella murmanica (Kuchinskaja & Minichev, 1978)
• Asperspina rhopalotecta Salvini-Plawen, 1973^[2]
• Asperspina loricata (Swedmark, 1968)^[2]
• Asperspina riseri (Morse, 1976)^[2]

References

1. Rankin, Jessie J. (1979). "A freshwater shell-less Mollusc from the Caribbean: Structure, biotics and contribution to a new understanding of the Acochlidioidea". Life Sciences Contributions, Royal Ontario Museum. 116. Royal Ontario Museum: 1–123, at 103. Retrieved Jun 19, 2016. Uploaded by Biodiversity Heritage Library.
2. Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 124-154. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00544.x.
3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.

Further reading

• "Heartless and primitive? 3D reconstruction of the polar acochlidian gastropod Asperspina murmanica". doi:10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00342.x
• Hochberg R. (2007). "Serotonin-like Immunoreactivity in the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems of the Interstitial Acochlidean Asperspina sp. (Opisthobranchia)". Biological Bulletin 213: 43-54. HTM.