Ceratosoma

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Ceratosoma brevicaudatum 3.jpg | image_caption = ''Ceratosoma brevicaudatum'' | taxon = Ceratosoma | authority = J. E. Gray in M. E. Gray, 1850<ref>Gray, J. E. (1850). [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11632090 Explanation of plates and list of genera. In M.E. Gray, Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Vol. 4.] Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 124 pp.</ref> | type_species = ''Ceratosoma trilobatum''<ref>Molluscabase https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212893</ref> | type_species_authority = J. E. Gray<ref>Pages 13, pl. 67 fig. 14 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11632090#page/9/mode/1up(1848-50).</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212891 | title=Molluscabase - Ceratosoma trilobatum (J. E. Gray, 1850) }}</ref> | synonyms = }}

'''''Ceratosoma''''' is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae.<ref name="molluscabase">MolluscaBase (2018). [http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204185 ''Ceratosoma'' A. Adams & Reeve, 1850.] Accessed on 2018-12-01</ref><ref>Rudman W.B. (1984) The date and authorship of ''Bornella'' and ''Ceratosoma'' (Nudibranchia) and other molluscs collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, 1843-46. Malacological Review 17: 103-104, page(s): 170</ref>

==Taxonomic notes== This nudibranch genus is not to be confused with the muricid gastropod genus ''Ceratostoma''. The type species is ''Ceratosoma cornigerum'', accepted as ''Ceratosoma trilobatum'' (J.E. Gray, 1827)

== Species == Species in the genus ''Ceratosoma'' include:<ref name="molluscabase" /> * ''Ceratosoma amoenum'' (Cheeseman, 1886) * ''Ceratosoma bicolor'' Baba, 1949 - possibly a colour form of ''Ceratosoma trilobatum'' * ''Ceratosoma brevicaudatum'' Abraham, 1876 * ''Ceratosoma gracillimum'' Semper in Bergh, 1876 * ''Ceratosoma ingozi'' Gosliner, 1996 Inkspot nudibranch * ''Ceratosoma palliolatum'' Rudman, 1988 * ''Ceratosoma polyomma'' Bergh, 1880 * ''Ceratosoma pustulosum'' (Cuvier, 1804) * ''Ceratosoma tenue'' Abraham, 1876 * ''Ceratosoma trilobatum'' (J.E. Gray, 1827) synonyms: ''Ceratosoma cornigerum'' ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Ceratosoma adelaidae'' Basedow & Hedley, 1905 accepted as ''Ceratosoma brevicaudatum'' Abraham, 1876 * ''Ceratosoma alleni'' Gosliner, 1996 : synonym of ''Miamira alleni'' (Gosliner, 1996) * ''Ceratosoma amoena'' [sic] accepted as ''Ceratosoma amoenum'' (Cheeseman, 1886) * ''Ceratosoma berghi'' Rochebrune, 1895 accepted as ''Ceratosoma trilobatum'' (J.E. Gray, 1827) * ''Ceratosoma bicorne'' Bergh, 1905 accepted as ''Ceratosoma tenue'' Abraham, 1876 * ''Ceratosoma caledonicum'' Fischer, 1876 accepted as ''Ceratosoma trilobatum'' (J.E. Gray, 1827) * ''Ceratosoma corallinum'' Odhner, 1917 accepted as ''Ceratosoma trilobatum'' (J.E. Gray, 1827) * ''Ceratosoma cornigerum'' (Adams & Reeve, 1850) accepted as ''Ceratosoma trilobatum'' (J.E. Gray, 1827) * ''Ceratosoma flavicostatum'' Baba, 1940 : synonym of ''Miamira flavicostata'' Baba, 1940 * ''Ceratosoma francoisi'' Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as ''Ceratosoma tenue'' Abraham, 1876 * ''Ceratosoma gibbosum'' Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as ''Ceratosoma trilobatum'' (J.E. Gray, 1827) * ''Ceratosoma jousseaumi'' Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as ''Ceratosoma tenue'' Abraham, 1876 * ''Ceratosoma lixi'' Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as ''Ceratosoma trilobatum'' (J.E. Gray, 1827) * ''Ceratosoma magnifica'' [sic] accepted as ''Miamira magnifica'' Eliot, 1904 * ''Ceratosoma magnificum'' (Eliot, 1910) : synonym of ''Miamira magnifica'' Eliot, 1904 * ''Ceratosoma miamiranum'' Bergh, 1875 : synonym of ''Miamira miamirana'' (Bergh, 1875) * ''Ceratosoma moloch'' Rudman, 1988 [https://web.archive.org/web/20071025032153/http://seaslug.info/factsheet.cfm?base=ceramolo]: synonym of ''Miamira moloch'' (Rudman, 1988) * ''Ceratosoma oblongum'' Abraham, 1876 accepted as ''Ceratosoma brevicaudatum'' Abraham, 1876 * ''Ceratosoma ornatum'' Bergh, 1890 accepted as ''Ceratosoma tenue'' Abraham, 1876 * ''Ceratosoma rhopalicum'' Rochebrune, 1894 accepted as ''Ceratosoma tenue'' Abraham, 1876 * ''Ceratosoma sinuatum'' van Hasselt, 1824: synonym of ''Miamira sinuata'' (van Hasselt, 1824)

<gallery style="text-align:center;" mode="packed"> Image:Ceratosoma amoenum008.jpg|''Ceratosoma amoenum'' Image:Ceratosoma brevicaudatum 3.jpg|''Ceratosoma brevicaudatum'' Image:Ink spot nudibranch on sponges at Pinnacle PB022231.JPG|''Ceratosoma ingozi'' Image:Ceratosoma tenue.jpg|''Ceratosoma tenue'' Image:Ceratosoma trilobatum 1.jpg|''Ceratosoma trilobatum'' </gallery>

==References== {{Commons category|Ceratosoma}} {{Reflist}}

Category:Chromodorididae Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray