{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | parent_authority = Swennen & Buatip, 2009<ref name="Swennen 2009"/> | taxon = Aiteng | authority = Swennen & Buatip, 2009<ref name="Swennen 2009">Swennen C. & Buatip S. "''Aiteng ater'', new genus, new species, an amphibious and insectivorous sea slug that is difficult to classify [Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa(?): Aitengidae, new family]". ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'' '''57'''(2): 495–500. [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/57/57rbz495-500.pdf PDF] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302190017/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/57/57rbz495-500.pdf |date=2012-03-02 }}.</ref> }}
'''''Aiteng''''' is a genus comprising three species of sea slug, ''A. ater'' and ''A. mysticus'' being found in intertidal zones while ''A. marefugitus'' is fully terrestrial.<ref name="Swennen 2009"/><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> ''Aiteng'' is the only genus in the family '''Aitengidae'''. The generic name ''Aiteng'' is derived from the name of a black puppet Ai Theng, which is one of the shadow play (Nang yai) puppets in southern Thailand.<ref name="Swennen 2009"/>
==Taxonomy== Swennen & Buatip (2009)<ref name="Swennen 2009"/> tentatively classified Aitengidae within the Sacoglossa,<ref name="Swennen 2009"/> but they noted that some characteristics of the nervous system are similar to those of the Cephalaspidea and Acochlidioidea (mentioned as Acochlidea).<ref name="Swennen 2009"/>
Aitengidae clusters within the Hedylopsacea as sister group to Pseudunelidae and Acochlidiidae or basal within Hedylopsacea.<ref name="Jörger 2010"/> Philippe Bouchet (2010)<ref name="Bouchet 2010"/> classified Aitengidae within the superfamily Hedylopsoidea.<ref name="Bouchet 2010">{{cite WoRMS |author =Philippe Bouchet |year=2011 |title=Aitengidae |id=547522 |accessdate=May 7, 2012}}</ref>
==Species== Species in the genus ''Aiteng'' include: * ''Aiteng ater'' <small>Swennen & Buatip, 2009</small><ref name="Swennen 2009"/> * ''Aiteng mysticus'' <small>Neusser, Fukuda, Jörger, Kano & Schrödl, 2011</small><ref name=":0">{{cite journal |author1=Timea P. Neusser |author2=Hiroshi Fukuda |author3=Katharina M. Jörger |author4=Yasunori Kano |author5=Michael Schrödl |year=2011 |title=Sacoglossa or Acochlidia? 3D-reconstruction, molecular phylogeny and evolution of ''Aiteng ater'' and ''Aiteng mysticus'' n. sp. (Aitengidae, Gastropoda) |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |volume=77 |issue=4 |pages=332–350 |doi=10.1093/mollus/eyr033|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Neusser 2011">{{cite journal |author1=Timea P. Neusser |author2=Katharina M. Jörger |author3=Michael Schrödl |year=2011 |title=Cryptic species in tropic sands – interactive 3D anatomy, molecular phylogeny and evolution of meiofaunal Pseudunelidae (Gastropoda, Acochlidia) |journal=PLoS ONE |volume=6 |issue=8 |article-number=e23313 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0023313 |pmid=21912592 |pmc=3166138|bibcode=2011PLoSO...623313N |doi-access=free }}</ref> – This species was found in Hisamatsu, Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan.<ref name="Jörger 2010"/> Morphologically it clearly belongs to the Aitengidae, but shows differences to ''Aiteng ater'' at genus or species level.<ref name="Jörger 2010"/> Its affinity to ''Aiteng ater'' is confirmed by comparison of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA sequences.<ref name="Jörger 2010"/> * ''Aiteng marefugitus'' <small>Kano, Neusser, Fukumori, Jörger & Schrödl, 2015</small> - species of sea slug that, remarkably, became terrestrial during the Cenozoic.<ref name=":1">{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/bij.12578|title=Sea-slug invasion of the land|journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=116|issue=2|pages=253–259|year=2015|last1=Kano|first1=Yasunori|last2=Neusser|first2=Timea P.|last3=Fukumori|first3=Hiroaki|last4=Jörger|first4=Katharina M.|last5=Schrödl|first5=Michael|doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Distribution== The distribution of ''Aiteng ater'' includes Thailand.<ref name="Swennen 2009"/> The distribution of ''Aiteng mysticus'' includes Japan.<ref name="Jörger 2010"/> The distribution of ''Aiteng marefugitus'' includes Palau.
==Ecology== ''Aiteng ater'' lives "amphibiously" in mangrove forests in the intertidal zone, on the mud.<ref name="Swennen 2009"/>
==References== This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from the reference.<ref name="Jörger 2010">{{cite journal | last1 = Jörger | first1 = K. M. | last2 = Stöger | first2 = I. | last3 = Kano | first3 = Y. | last4 = Fukuda | first4 = H. | last5 = Knebelsberger | first5 = T. | last6 = Schrödl | first6 = M. | year = 2010 | title = On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 10 | issue = 1| page = 323 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-10-323 | pmid = 20973994 | pmc=3087543 | bibcode = 2010BMCEE..10..323J | doi-access = free }}</ref> {{Reflist}}
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Category:Aiteng Category:Gastropod genera