{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Chelidonura varians.JPG | image_caption = ''Chelidonura varians'' | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Chelidonura | authority = A. Adams, 1850 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = | type_species = ''Bulla hirundinina'' | type_species_authority = Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }} '''''Chelidonura''''' is a genus of small, sometimes colorful, sea slugs. These are headshield slugs or cephalaspideans, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Aglajidae.<ref name = "WoRMS">Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Chelidonura A. Adams, 1850. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137638 on 16 June 2012</ref>
The two rather long "tails" at the end of the animal are characteristic of the genus.
== Species == Species with the genus ''Chelidonura'' include:<ref>Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=20em}} * ''Chelidonura alisonae'' Gosliner, 2011 * ''Chelidonura amoena'' Bergh, 1905 * ''Chelidonura castanea'' Yonow, 1994 * ''Chelidonura cubana'' Ortea & Martínez, 1997 * ''Chelidonura electra'' Rudman, 1970 * ''Chelidonura flavolobata'' Heller & Thompson 1983 * ''Chelidonura fulvipunctata'' Baba, 1938 * ''Chelidonura hirundinina'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) * ''Chelidonura inornata'' Baba, 1949 * ''Chelidonura livida'' Yonow, 1994<ref>[http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/chellivi The Sea Slug Forum : Chelidonura livida]; accessed : 7 February 2011</ref> * ''Chelidonura mariagordae'' Ortea, Espinosa & Moro, 2004 * ''Chelidonura normani'' Ornelas-Gatdula, Dupont & Valdés, 2011 * ''Chelidonura orchidaea'' Perrone, 1990<ref>[http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/chelorch The Sea Slug Forum : Chelidonura orchidaea]; accessed : 7 February 2011</ref> * ''Chelidonura pallida'' Risbec, 1951<ref>[http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/chelpall The Sea Slug Forum : Chelidonura pallida]; accessed : 7 February 2011</ref> * ''Chelidonura punctata'' Eliot, 1903 * ''Chelidonura sandrana'' Rudman, 1973<ref>[http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/chelsand The Sea Slug Forum : Chelidonura sandrana]; accessed : 7 February 2011</ref> * ''Chelidonura varians'' Eliot, 1903<ref>[http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/chelvar The Sea Slug Forum : Chelidonura varians]; accessed : 7 February 2011</ref> {{div col end}} ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Chelidonura aureopunctata'' <small>Rudman, 1968</small>: synonym of ''Philinopsis taronga'' <small>(Allan, 1933)</small> * ''Chelidonura babai'' <small>Gosliner, 1988</small>: synonym of ''Chelidonura sandrana'' <small>Rudman, 1973</small> * ''Chelidonura conformata'' <small>Burn, 1966</small>: synonym of ''Biuve fulvipunctata'' <small>(Baba, 1938)</small> * ''Chelidonura italica'' <small>Sordi, 1980</small>: synonym of ''Camachoaglaja africana'' <small>(Pruvot-Fol, 1953)</small> * ''Chelidonura larramendii'' <small>Ortea, Espinosa & Moro, 2009</small>: synonym of ''Camachoaglaja larramendii'' <small>(Ortea, Espinosa & Moro, 2009)</small> * ''Chelidonura mediterranea'' <small>Swennen, 1961</small>: synonym of ''Biuve fulvipunctata'' <small>(Baba, 1938)</small> * ''Chelidonura nyanyana'' <small>Edmunds, 1968</small>: synonym of ''Navanax orbignyanus'' <small>(Rochebrune, 1881)</small> * ''Chelidonura petra'' Ev. Marcus, 1976: synonym of ''Spinoaglaja petra'' (Ev. Marcus, 1976) * ''Chelidonura philinopsis'' Eliot, 1903:<ref>[http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/chelphil The Sea Slug Forum : Chelidonura philinopsis]; accessed : 7 February 2011</ref> synonym of ''Chelidonura hirundinina'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) * ''Chelidonura sabadiega'' Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1997: synonym of ''Mannesia sabadiega'' (Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1997)
== References == {{Reflist}} * 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
== External links == {{Commons category|Chelidonura}} *{{Wikispecies-inline|Chelidonura|''Chelidonura''}} * [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/oct/16/chelidonura-mandroroa-marine-gastropod-nature?newsfeed=true The Guardian; Chelidonura mandroroa; 16 October 2011]
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Category:Aglajidae Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa named by Arthur Adams (zoologist)