Neptunazurea garciagomezi is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.[2][3]
| Neptunazurea garciagomezi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Neptunazurea |
| Species: | N. garciagomezi |
| Binomial name | |
| Neptunazurea garciagomezi | |
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Taxonomic History
editThis species was described by Edmunds from Ghana as a variation of Hypselodoris tricolor.[4] It was named as a new species in the revision of Ortea et al.[1]
In 2025, it was reassigned to the new genus Neptunazurea. Despite not having a strong association of molecular data with others in the genus, it along with Neptunazurea molloi and Neptunazurea paulomirpuri were included purely based on possession of internal and external morphology diagnostic to the genus. Ribeiro et al. (2025) also remarks that "it remains unclear whether N. garciagomezi and N. paulomirpuri are truly distinct from Neptunazurea francoisae. [3]
References
edit- 1 2 Ortea, J., Valdés, Á. & García-Gómez, J.C. (1996). Revisión de las especies atlánticas de la familia Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) del grupo cromático azul. Avicennia suplemento 1: 1-165.
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2025). Neptunazurea garciagomezi. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2026-04-22
- 1 2 Ribeiro, A.; García-Méndez, K.; Valdés, Á.; Schrödl, M.; Padula, V. (2025). Description of a new genus of Chromodorididae with a taxonomic review of Neptunazurea kempfi (Ev. Marcus, 1971) comb. nov. (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia). Zootaxa. 5716(3): 333-348.
- ↑ Edmunds, M. 1981. Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Ghana: Chromodorididae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 72(2):175-201.