{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{For|an Achaemenid province|Satrapy of Armenia}} {{Italic title}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = ''Armina'' | image = Armina neapolitana.jpg | image_caption = ''Armina neapolitana'' | taxon = Armina | authority = (Rafinesque, 1814) | synonyms_ref= <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Diphyllidia'' Blainville, 1819 * ''Linguella'' Férussac, 1822 * ''Pleurophyllidia'' Meckel, 1823 * ''Sancara'' Bergh, 1860 | type_species= ''Armina tigrina'' Rafinesque, 1814 }}
[[File:Armina Nick Hobgood.jpg|thumb|right|''Armina'' sp. from East Timor.]] [[File:Gilchrist's armina DSC09772.jpg|thumb|''A. gilchristi'' from South Africa.]] [[File:Pierre's armina feeding on purple sea pen DSC09784.jpg|thumb|''Armina'' sp. Pierre's armina, from South Africa]]
'''''Armina''''' is a genus of sea slugs, specifically nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Arminidae.<ref name="WoRMS">Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Armina. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137677 on 2012-04-15</ref>
Armina loveni is known to prey on pennatulacean octocorals, consuming the polyps of these colonial animals.
== Species == Species within the genus ''Armina'' include:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seaslugforum.net/specieslist.cfm |title= The Sea Slug Forum - Species List|website=www.seaslugforum.net |access-date=6 January 2009 |archive-date=28 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091228180914/http://www.seaslugforum.net/specieslist.cfm |url-status=dead }}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *''Armina adami'' <small>(White, 1955)</small> *''Armina aoteana'' <small>(Miller & Willan, 1986)</small> * ''Armina appendiculata'' <small>Baba, 1949</small> *''Armina babai'' <small>(Tchang, 1934)</small> *''Armina ballesterosi'' <small>(Ortea, 1989)</small> *''Armina bayeri'' <small>(Marcus & Marcus, 1966)</small> * ''Armina bilamella'' <small>Lin, 1981</small> *''Armina californica'' <small>(J.G. Cooper, 1863)</small> *''Armina capensis'' <small>(Bergh, 1907)</small> *''Armina cara'' <small>Marcus, 1971</small><ref>Marcus Ev. (1971). "ON SOME EUTHYNEURAN GASTROPODS FROM THE INDIAN AND PACIFIC OCEANS". ''Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London'' '''39'''(5): 355–369. page 355. {{doi|10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a065115}}.</ref> *''Armina carneola'' <small>(Lim & Chou, 1970)</small> * ''Armina cinerea'' <small>(Farran, 1905)</small> *''Armina comta'' <small>(Bergh, 1880)</small> *''Armina cordellensis'' <small>(Gosliner & Behrens, 1996)</small> *''Armina cuvierii'' <small>(Orbigny, 1837)</small> *''Armina cygnea'' <small>(Bergh, 1876)</small> *''Armina elongata'' <small>(Ardila & Valdes, 2004)</small> *''Armina euchroa'' <small>(Bergh, 1907)</small> *''Armina formosa'' <small>(Kelaart, 1858)</small> *''Armina gilchristi'' <small>(White, 1955)</small> *''Armina grisea'' <small>(O'Donoghue, 1929)</small> *''Armina japonica'' <small>(Eliot, 1913)</small> *''Armina joia'' <small>(Marcus & Marcus, 1966)</small> *''Armina juliana'' <small>(Ardila & Diaz, 2002)</small> *''Armina liouvillei'' <small>(Pruvot-Fol, 1953)</small> * ''Armina longicauda'' <small>Lin, 1981</small> *''Armina loveni'' <small>(Bergh, 1866)</small> *''Armina maculata'' <small>(Rafinesque, 1814)</small> *''Armina magna'' <small>(Baba, 1955)</small> *''Armina major'' <small>(Baba, 1949)</small> *''Armina microdonta'' <small>(Bergh, 1907</small>) *''Armina muelleri'' <small>(Ihering, 1886)</small> *''Armina natalensis'' <small>(Bergh, 1866)</small> *''Armina neapolitana'' <small>(delle Chiaje, 1824)</small> * ''Armina occulta'' <small>Mehrotra, Caballer & Chavanich, 2017</small> *''Armina papillata'' <small>(Baba, 1933)</small> * ''Armina paucifoliata'' <small>Baba, 1955</small> * ''Armina punctilopsis'' <small>Lin, 1992</small> * ''Armina punctilucens'' <small>(Bergh, 1874)</small> *''Armina punctulata'' <small>(Lin, 1990)</small> * ''Armina rubida'' <small>(A. Gould, 1852)</small> * ''Armina scotti'' <small>Mehrotra, Caballer & Chavanich, 2017</small> *''Armina semperi'' <small>(Bergh, 1861)</small> *''Armina serrata'' <small>(O'Donoghue, 1929)</small> * ''Armina simoniana'' <small>(Thiele, 1925)</small> * ''Armina sinensis'' <small>Lin, 1981</small> *''Armina taeniolata'' <small>(Bergh, 1860)</small> *''Armina tigrina'' <small>(Rafinesque, 1814)</small> : type species *''Armina tricuspidata'' <small>(Thompson, Cattaneo, & Wong, 1990)</small> *''Armina undulata'' <small>(Meckel, 1823)</small> {{citation needed|date=April 2012}} *''Armina variolosa'' <small>(Bergh, 1904)</small> *''Armina wattla'' <small>(Marcus & Marcus, 1967)</small> *''Armina xandra'' <small>(Marcus & Marcus, 1966)</small> * ''Armina'' sp. Pierre's armina<ref>ZSILAVECZ, G. 2007. ''Nudibranchs of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay''. {{ISBN|0-620-38054-3}}</ref> {{div col end}} ;Species brought into synonymy: *''Armina abbotti'' <small>(Thompson, Cattaneo, & Wong, 1990)</small>: synonym of ''Armina wattla'' <small>Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967</small> *''Armina columbiana'' <small>(O'Donoghue, 1924)</small>: synonym of ''Armina californica'' <small>(J. G. Cooper, 1863)</small> * ''Armina convolvula'' <small>Lance, 1962</small>: synonym of ''Histiomena marginata'' <small>(Oersted in Mørch, 1859)</small> *''Armina digueti'' <small>(Pruvot-Fol, 1955)</small>: synonym of ''Armina californica'' <small>(J. G. Cooper, 1863)</small> *''Armina henneguyi'' <small>(Labbé, 1922)</small>: synonym of ''Pleurophyllidia henneguyi'' <small>Labbé, 1922</small> (taxon inquirendum) * ''Armina mulleri'' <small>(Ihering, 1886)</small>: synonym of ''Armina muelleri'' <small>(Ihering, 1886)</small> * ''Armina paucidentata'' <small>(O'Donoghue, 1932)</small>: synonym of ''Pleurophyllidiella paucidentata'' <small>O'Donoghue, 1932</small> *''Armina pustulosa'' <small>(Schultz in Philippi, 1836)</small>: synonym of ''Armina maculata'' <small>Rafinesque, 1814</small> *''Armina vancouverensis'' ''(Bergh, 1876)'': synonym of ''Armina californica'' <small>(J. G. Cooper, 1863)</small>
==References== * <ref>{{cite journal |last=Thompson |first=T. E. |date=1981 |title=Taxonomy of the genus *Armina* (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) with descriptions of two new species. |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=149–171}}</ref> * Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca.'' American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). {{ISBN|0-915826-22-4}}. XII, 195 pp. * Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.'' Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213 {{Reflist}} * https://web.archive.org/web/20110718215743/http://folk.ntnu.no/vmzotbak/nudibranchia/arminidae/armina_loveni.htm accessed 9 November 2009 * http://www.catalogueoflife.org/ accessed 9 November 2009 *[http://repositories.cdlib.org/ims/Nudibranch_Systematic_Index Gary R. McDonald, University of California Santa Cruz; 29 July 2006, "Nudibranch Systematic Index", University of California Santa Cruz] * [https://books.google.com/books?id=HWafEqVbRa4C&pg=PA377 Miller M.C. & Willan R.C. 1986. A review of New Zealand arminacean nudibranchs (Opisthobranchia: Arminacea). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 13: 377-408]
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Category:Arminidae Category:Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque