Description of the first cryptobranch onchidoridid Onchimira cavifera gen. et sp. nov., and of three new species of the genera Adalaria Bergh, 1879 and Onchidoris Blainville, 1816 (Nudibranchia: Onchidorididae) from Kamchatka waters

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Authors: MARTYNOV, ALEXANDER, KORSHUNOVA, TATIANA, SANAMYAN, NADEZHDA, SANAMYAN, KAREN
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mangolia Press 2009
• Subjects: Mollusca; Opisthobranchia; Doridacea; taxonomy; phylogeny; gill cavity (=gill pocket) evolution; North Pacific; Pacific; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.2159.1.1; https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2159.1.1

The opisthobranch fauna of the SE Kamchatka peninsula (NW Pacific, Russia) has been intensively investigated for the first time resulting in 21 species found, and six new records for Kamchatka. A unique onchidoridid species with a well defined, closeable gill pocket into which gills can be fully ret...