Genus Goniobranchus Pease, 1866

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• Goniobranchus Pease, W.H. 1866. Remarks on Nudibranchiata inhabiting the Pacific Islands, with descriptions of two new genera. American Journal of Conchology 2: 204-208 [204].

  Type species:

   Doris vibrata Pease, 1860 by subsequent designation, see O'Donoghue, C.H. 1924. Report on Opisthobranchiata from the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, with description of a new parasitic copepod. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 35: 521-579, pls [553].
• Lissodoris Odhner, N. Hj. 1934. The Nudibranchia. British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition 1910. Zoology 7(5): 229–310 [245].

  Type species:

   Lissodoris mollis Odhner, 1934 (= Goniobranchus aureomarginatus (Cheeseman, 1881)) by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Johnson, R.F. & Gosliner, T.M. 2012. Traditional Taxonomic Groupings Mask Evolutionary History: A Molecular Phylogeny and New Classification of the Chromodorid Nudibranchs. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 7(4): e33479

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Transition (19), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Soong, G.Y., Bonomo, L.J., Reimer, J.D. & Gosliner, T.M. 2022. Battle of the bands: systematics and phylogeny of the white Goniobranchus nudibranchs with marginal bands (Nudibranchia, Chromodorididae). ZooKeys 1083: 169-210

History of changes