Cratena

Genus of gastropods

Cratena

Cratena capensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Order:  | Nudibranchia
Suborder:  | Cladobranchia
Family:  | Facelinidae
Genus:  | Cratena
Bergh, 1864
Type species
Doris peregrina

Gmelin, 1791

Synonyms[1]

Rizzolia Trinchese, 1877

Cratena is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Facelinidae.[1]

Cratena is the type genus of the subfamily Crateninae.

## Species

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Species within the genus Cratena include:

* Cratena affinis (Baba, 1949)
* Cratena capensis Barnard, 1927 \- orange-eyed nudibranch
* Cratena lineata Eliot, 1905
* Cratena minor Padula, Araújo, Matthews-Cascon & Schrödl, 2014
* Cratena pawarshindeorum Bharate, Padula, Apte & Shimpi, 2020
* Cratena peregrina (Gmelin, 1791)
* Cratena pilata (Gould, 1870)
* Cratena poshitraensis Bharate, Padula, Apte & Shimpi, 2020
* Cratena scintilla Ortea & Moro, 1998
* Cratena simba Edmunds, 1970
* Cratena tema Edmunds, 2015

Taxa inquirenda

* Cratena cornuta (Risbec, 1928)
* Cratena diffusa (Risbec, 1928)
* Cratena grisea (Risbec, 1928)

Species brought into synonymy

* Cratena anulata Baba, 1949: synonym of Cuthona anulata (Baba, 1949)
* Cratena cavanca Bergh, 1898: synonym of Phidiana lottini (Lesson, 1831)
* Cratena exigua Thiele, 1912: synonym of Cuthona georgiana (Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886)
* Cratena fructuosa Bergh, 1892: synonym of Cuthona fructuosa (Bergh, 1892)
* Cratena genovae O'Donoghue, 1929: synonym of Cuthona genovae (O'Donoghue, 1929)
* Cratena gymnota (Couthouy, 1838): synonym of Cuthona gymnota (Couthouy, 1838)
* Cratena hirsuta Bergh, 1864: synonym of Cuthona nana (Alder & Hancock, 1842)
* Cratena kaoruae Marcus, 1957: synonym of Cratena pilata (Gould, 1870)[2]
* Cratena lugubris Bergh, 1870: synonym of Phestilla lugubris (Bergh, 1870)
* Cratena macphersonae Burn, 1962: synonym of Phyllodesmium macphersonae (Burn, 1962)
* Cratena nigricolora Baba, 1955: synonym of Catriona nigricolora (Baba, 1955)
* Cratena pinnifera Baba, 1949: synonym of Catriona pinnifera (Baba, 1949)
* Cratena piutaensis Ortea, Caballer & Espinosa, 2003: synonym of Anetarca piutaensis (Ortea, Caballer & Espinosa, 2003)
* Cratena puellula Baba, 1955: synonym of Cuthona puellula (Baba, 1955)
* Cratena pusilla Bergh, 1898: synonym of Cuthona pusilla (Bergh, 1898)
* Cratena valentini Eliot, 1907: synonym of Cuthona valentini (Eliot, 1907)
* Cratena venusta Baba, 1949: synonym of Catriona venusta (Baba, 1949)
* Cratena veronicae A. E. Verrill, 1880: synonym of Cuthona veronicae (A. E. Verrill, 1880)
* Cratena vittata (Alder & Hancock, 1842): synonym of Eubranchus vittatus (Alder & Hancock, 1842)
* Cratena yatsui Baba, 1930: synonym of Herviella yatsui (Baba, 1930)

## References

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Wikispecies has information related to Cratena.

1. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2012). Cratena. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146861 on 2012-07-22
2. ^ Marcus, E. du B.-R. 1957: Notes on some opisthobranch gastropods from the Chesapeake Bay. Chesapeake science, 13(4): 300-317. doi:10.2307/1351113 JSTOR

* Bergh R. 1864. Anatomiske bidrag til kundskab om Aeolidierne. Det Kongelige Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Naturvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Afdeling, 7: 139–316
* ICZN. (1966). Opinion 776. Cratena Bergh, 1864 (Gastropoda): Added to the Official List of Generic Names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 23: 93-94
* Paper on nomenclature

Taxon identifiers

Cratena|

* Wikidata: Q3139460
* Wikispecies: Cratena
* ADW: Cratena
* AFD: Cratena
* BioLib: 650716
* BOLD: 507344
* CoL: 7NTR2
* GBIF: 2292221
* iNaturalist: 64489
* IRMNG: 1268120
* ITIS: 78712
* NCBI: 154641
* Open Tree of Life: 299491
* WoRMS: 146861