• Miamira Bergh, L.S.R 1875. Neue Nacktschnecken der Südsee, malacologische Untersuchungen. III. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 3(8): 53-100 [Plates published in 3(10) Pl 7-11; also separately published with plates] [53].

  Type species:

   Miamira nobilis Bergh, 1875 (= Doris sinuata van Hasselt, 1824) by monotypy.
• Orodoris Bergh, 1875.

  Secondary source:

   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

Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

History of changes

• Miamira flavicostata Baba, K. 1940. Miamira flavicostata n.sp., a nudibranchiate mollusc from Amakusa, Japan. Zoological Magazine, Tokyo 52(6): 239-240.

Generic Combinations

• Ceratosoma flavicostatum (Baba, 1940).
• Miamira flavicostatum (Baba, 1940).

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Coleman, N. 2008. Nudibranchs Encyclopedia. Queensland : Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic 416 pp. [133]

History of changes

• Miamira magnifica Eliot, C.N.E. 1910. A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca with Figures of the Species. Part VIII (supplementary). Figures by the late Joshua Alder and the late Albany Hancock, and others. London : Ray Society 198 pp.

Generic Combinations

• Ceratosoma magnifica (Eliot, 1910). —
  Valdes, A. & Gosliner, T.M. 1999. Reassessment of the systematic status of Miamira Bergh, 1875 and Orodoris Bergh, 1875 (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) in light of phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 65: 33-45 [33]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Dampier Archipelago to southern WA, possibly to NSW: Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [135, 136, species 175]

History of changes

• Orodoris miamirana Bergh, L.S.R 1875. Neue Nacktschnecken der Südsee, malacologische Untersuchungen. III. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 3(8): 53-100 [Plates published in 3(10) Pl 7-11; also separately published with plates] [67].
• Orodoris striata Eliot, C.N.E. 1904. On some nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar. Part VI. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1904, vol. 2: 268-298 [269].
• Fracassa tuberculosa Eliot, C.N.E. 1903. On some nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar: Part 3. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 354-385 [371].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Valdes, A. & Gosliner, T.M. 1999. Reassessment of the systematic status of Miamira Bergh, 1875 and Orodoris Bergh, 1875 (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) in light of phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 65: 33-45 [37-41]

Generic Combinations

• Miamira miamirana (Bergh, 1875). —
  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 [Tab. S2] (Table S2 Supporting Information)
• Ceratosoma miamiranum (Bergh, 1875). —
  Valdes, A. & Gosliner, T.M. 1999. Reassessment of the systematic status of Miamira Bergh, 1875 and Orodoris Bergh, 1875 (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) in light of phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 65: 33-45 [33]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Possibly also QLD: Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [135, species 173] (as Orodoris miamirana Bergh, 1875)

History of changes

• Ceratosoma moloch Rudman, W.B. 1988. The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: the genus Ceratosoma J. E. Gray. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93: 133–185 [158-162].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C143714, N side Heron Is., Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM C147845, Shag Rocks, NW of Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Is., southern QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Miamira moloch (Rudman, 1988). —
  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 [Tab S2] (Supplementary Material Table S2)

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Marshall, J.G. & Willan, R.C. 1999. Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Leiden : Backhuys 257 pp. [88-89]

History of changes

• Doris sinuata Hasselt, J.C. van 1824. Extrait d'une lettre du Dr. J.C. van Hasselt au Prof. can Swinderen sur mollusques de Java (traduit de l'Allgem. Konst en letterbode, 1824, Nos. 2, 3, 4) Tjuringe (île Java), le 25 Mai 1823 (1). Bulletin des Sciences Naturelles et de Géologie 3: 237-248.
• Miamira nobilis Bergh, L.S.R 1875. Neue Nacktschnecken der Südsee, malacologische Untersuchungen. III. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 3(8): 53-100 [Plates published in 3(10) Pl 7-11; also separately published with plates] [53].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Valdes, A. & Gosliner, T.M. 1999. Reassessment of the systematic status of Miamira Bergh, 1875 and Orodoris Bergh, 1875 (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) in light of phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 65: 33-45 [34-37]

Generic Combinations

• Miamira sinuata (Van Hasselt, 1824). —
  Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea Slugs of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 184 pp. [135, species 174]
• Ceratosoma sinuatum (Van Hasselt, 1824). —
  Valdes, A. & Gosliner, T.M. 1999. Reassessment of the systematic status of Miamira Bergh, 1875 and Orodoris Bergh, 1875 (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) in light of phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 65: 33-45 [33]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

History of changes