Bosellia

Bosellia is a genus of sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Plakobranchoidea.[3]

Bosellia
Bosellia mimetica on Halimeda tuna. Locality: Mediterranean Sea. The length of the slug is about 1 cm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Sacoglossa clade Plakobranchacea
Superfamily:	Plakobranchoidea
Family:	Boselliidae Ev. Marcus, 1982[1]
Genus:	Bosellia Trinchese, 1891[2]

Bosellia is the only genus in the family Boselliidae.[4][5] Such families are monotypic families and this family has no subfamilies.

Distribution

Distribution include warm waters in Mediterranean and in Atlantic ocean.[6] Reports from Indo-Pacific were not confirmed.[6]

Species

Species within the genus Bosellia include 3 species and one with uncertain taxonomic status:[6]

• Bosellia cohellia Marcus, 1978 - uncertain taxonomic status[6]
• Bosellia curasoae Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970
• Bosellia corinneae Marcus, 1973
• Bosellia levis Fernandez-Ovies & Ortea, 1986
• Bosellia mimetica Trinchese, 1890

Species brought into synonymy

• Bosellia leve Fernández-Ovies & Ortea, 1986: synonym of Bosellia levis Fernandez-Ovies & Ortea, 1986
• Bosellia marcusi Ev. Marcus, 1972: synonym of Elysia marcusi (Ev. Marcus, 1972)

Phylogenetic results by Händeler et al. (2009)[5] indicate that the Caribbean "Bosellia marcusi" described by Eveline Agnes du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1972)[7] is a derived species of Elysia. Morphological examination indicates that the parapodia of "B. marcusi" have secondarily fused over the dorsum, producing a superficial similarity with Bosellia. Bosellia marcusi Marcus, 1972 is a synonym for Elysia marcusi (Marcus, 1972).[5]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from reference.[5]

1. Marcus E. D. B. R. (1982). The Journal of Mollusca Studies Suppl. 10: 18.
2. Trinchese S. (1891). Mem. Accad. Bologna (5)1: 271.
3. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
4. Jensen K. R. (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics and classification of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B Biological Sciences 351(1335 ): 91-122. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0006.
5. Händeler K., Grzymbowski Y. P., Krug P. J., Wägele H. (2009). "Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life". Frontiers in Zoology. 6 (1): 28. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-28. PMC 2790442. PMID 19951407.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
6. Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
7. Marcus E. D. B. R. (March 1972). "On some opisthobranchs from Florida". Bulletin of Marine Science 22(2): 284-308.

Further reading

• Atucha A. M., Aragonés J. D. R. (1989). "The chloroplast-animal association in four Iberian sacoglossan opisthobranchs: Elysia timida, Elysia translucens, Thuridilla hopei and Bosellia mimetica". Scientia Marina. 53 (2–3): 429–440.