Mediterranean matters: revision of the family onchidorididae (mollusca, nudibranchia) with the description of a new genus and a new species “2279

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    The Mediterranean Sea is considered a hot spot of marine biodiversity with high levels of endemism and cryptic species, and new species continually revealed. Except for the genus Acanthodoris, which includes 15 accepted species and three dubious ones (one nomen dubium and two taxa inquirenda), and the recently described monospecific Onchimira genus, represented by Onchimira cavifera Martynov, Korshunova, N. Sanamyan and amp; K. Sanamyan, 2009, the rest of the genera show a troubled systematic history. In this framework of uncertainty, the fact that the external morphology of many species has important traits of similarity . . .

     

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