Berghia

Berghia is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs. They are shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Aeolidiidae.[2]

For the Romanian village, see Pănet.

Berghia
Berghia coerulescens
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:	Aeolidiidae
Genus:	Berghia Trinchese, 1877[1]
Type species
Eolidia coerulescens Laurillard, 1830
Synonyms
Millereolidia Ortea, Caballer & Espinosa, 2004 Milleria Ortea, Caballer & Espinosa, 2003 (preoccupied name)

Species

Species in the genus Berghia include:[2][3]

• Berghia agari (Smallwood, 1910)
• Berghia amakusana (Baba, 1937)
• Berghia benteva (Er. Marcus, 1958)
• Berghia coerulescens (Laurillard, 1830)
• Berghia columbina (Garcia-Gomez & Thompson, 1990)
• Berghia creutzbergi Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970
• Berghia dakariensis (Pruvot-Fol, 1953)
• Berghia ghanensis Edmunds, 2015
• Berghia marcusi Dominguez, Troncoso & García, 2008
• Berghia marinae Carmona, Pola, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014
• Berghia norvegica Odhner, 1939
• Berghia rissodominguezi Muniain & Ortea, 1999
• Berghia stephanieae (Valdés, 2005)
• Berghia verrucicornis (Costa A., 1867)

Species brought into synonymy

• Berghia chaka Gosliner, 1985: synonym of Baeolidia chaka (Gosliner, 1985)
• Berghia dela Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1960: synonym of Baeolidia dela (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1960)[3]
• Berghia modesta Trinchese, 1882: synonym of Berghia coerulescens (Laurillard, 1830)

References

1. Trinchese S. 1877. Note zoologiche. 1. Descrizione del genere Rizzolia Trinchese; 2. Descrizione del genere Berghia Trinchese; 3. Caratteri distintivi dei generi Facelina e Acanthopsole. Rendiconto delle Sessioni dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, anno accademico 1876-77, pp. 147-156.
2. Gofas, S. (2014). Berghia Trinchese, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-02-23.
3. Carmona L., Pola M., Gosliner T.M. & Cervera J.L. (2014). The Atlantic-Mediterranean genus Berghia Trinchese, 1877 (Nudibranchia: Aeolidiidae): taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 80(5): 482-498.