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Okenia  Leuckart and Bronn in Menke, 1830
Taxonomic Serial No.: 78414

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2000   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassGastropoda Cuvier, 1797 – gastropods, slugs, snails, escargots, gastéropodes, limaces, caracol, caramujo, lesma  
                   SubclassOrthogastropoda   
                      InfraclassHeterobranchia   
                         SuperorderNudipleura   
                            OrderNudibranchia Cuvier in Blainville, 1814 – nudibranchs, nudibranches  
                               SuborderDoridina   
                                  InfraorderDoridoidei   
                                     SuperfamilyOnchidoridoidea Gray, 1827  
                                        FamilyGoniodorididae H. Adams and A. Adams, 1854  
                                           GenusOkenia Leuckart and Bronn in Menke, 1830  
    Direct Children:  
                                              SpeciesOkenia angelensis Lance, 1966 – Angeles okenia 
                                              SpeciesOkenia ascidicola M. P. Morse, 1972  
                                              SpeciesOkenia aspera (Alder and Hancock, 1845)  
                                              SpeciesOkenia cupella (Vogel and Schultz, 1970)  
                                              SpeciesOkenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828)  
                                              SpeciesOkenia impexa Er. Marcus, 1957  
                                              SpeciesOkenia leachii (Alder and Hancock, 1854)  
                                              SpeciesOkenia modesta A. E. Verrill, 1875  
                                              SpeciesOkenia plana Baba, 1960 – flat okenia 
                                              SpeciesOkenia pulchella Alder and Hancock, 1854  
                                              SpeciesOkenia quadricornis (Montagu, 1815) – seasquirt okenia 
                                              SpeciesOkenia sapelona Ev. Marcus and Er. Marcus, 1967 – Sapelo okenia 
                                              SpeciesOkenia vancouverensis (O'Donoghue, 1921) – Vancouver okenia 
                                              SpeciesOkenia zoobotryon (Smallwood, 1910)  
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Okenia   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Millard, V.   
  Publication Date: 1997   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Classification of Mollusca: A classification of world wide Mollusca   
  Page(s): 1-544   
  Publisher: Victor Millard   
  Publication Place: South Africa   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-620-21261-6   
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  Reference for: Okenia   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al.   
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26   
  Page(s): 526   
  Publisher: American Fisheries Society   
  Publication Place: Bethesda, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-888569-01-8, 0097-0638  
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  Reference for: Okenia   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Vaught, K. C. / Abbott, Robert T. and Kenneth J. Boss   
  Publication Date: 1989   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: A classification of the living Mollusca   
  Page(s): xii+195   
  Publisher: American Malacologists, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Melbourne, FL, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-915826-22-4   
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  Reference for: Okenia   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Mollusca 'parahomonym' of (different kingdom, same name as) plant genus Okenia Schlecht. & Cham. (TSN 19604 & 19603)  
 

 

    


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