Felimare

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Hypselodoris picta on SS Rosslyn, 300412.JPG |image_caption =''Felimare picta'' on SS Rosslyn, Gibraltar |taxon = Felimare |authority = Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967 |synonyms = |type_species = ''Felimare bayeri'' |type_species_authority = Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967 |display_parents= 3 }}

'''''Felimare''''' is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Miamirinae of the family Chromodorididae.<ref name="WoRMS">Bouchet, P.; Caballer, M. (2020). [https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558624 ''Felimare'' Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus.] Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2026-04-22</ref>

==Taxonomic history== ''Felimare'' was described by Eveline & Ernst Marcus in 1967 but treated as a synonym of ''Hypselodoris'' until 2012 when it was brought back into use for an eastern Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean clade revealed by molecular (DNA) techniques.<ref>Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) [http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033479 ''Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs''.] PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479</ref>

Since then it has been somewhat controversial genus, as the 2012 molecular analysis did not take any morphological characteristics into clarification, either external or internal, resulting in little to no diagnostic material to define the genus. In 2025, several of the smaller ''Felimare'' species were investigated using both molecular phylogenetic analysis and morphological analysis, and subsequently moved into a new genus, ''Neptunazurea''<ref name=Neptunazurea>Ribeiro, A.; García-Méndez, K.; Valdés, Á.; Schrödl, M.; Padula, V. (2025). [https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.3.2 Description of a new genus of Chromodorididae with a taxonomic review of Neptunazurea kempfi (Ev. Marcus, 1971) comb. nov. (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia).] Zootaxa. 5716(3): 333-348.</ref>.

==Species== {{div col|colwidth=20em}} * ''Felimare acriba'' Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967 * ''Felimare agassizii'' Bergh, 1894 * ''Felimare alaini'' Ortea, Espinosa & Buske, 2013 * ''Felimare amalguae'' Gosliner & Bertsch, 1988 * ''Felimare aurantimaculata'' Ortigosa, Pola & Cervera, 2017<ref>Ortigosa D., Pola M., Cervera J. L. (2017). "A new ''Felimare'' (Mollusca: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia) of the Atlantic blue chromodorid chromatic group from Cape Verde". ''Scientia Marina'' '''81'''(3): 387-394. {{doi|10.3989/scimar.04594.16A}}.</ref> * ''Felimare bayeri'' Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967 * ''Felimare bilineata'' Pruvot-Fol, 1953 * ''Felimare californiensis'' Bergh, 1879 * ''Felimare cantabrica'' Bouchet & Ortea, 1980 * ''Felimare ciminoi'' Ortea & Valdés, 1996 * ''Felimare espinosai'' Ortea & Valdés, 1996 * ''Felimare fontandraui'' Pruvot-Fol, 1951 * ''Felimare fortunensis'' Ortea, Espinosa & Buske, 2013 * ''Felimare fregona'' Ortea & Caballer, 2013 * ''Felimare gasconi'' Ortea, 1996 * ''Felimare gofasi'' Ortea & Valdés, 1996 * ''Felimare juliae'' DaCosta, Padula & Schrödl, 2010 * ''Felimare lajensis'' Troncoso, Garcia & Urgorri, 1998 * ''Felimare lalique'' Ortea & Caballer, 2013 * ''Felimare lapislazuli'' Bertsch & Ferreira, 1974 * ''Felimare lilyeveae'' Alejandrino & Valdés, 2006 * ''Felimare malacitana'' Luque, 1986 * ''Felimare marci'' Ev. Marcus, 1971 * ''Felimare muniainae'' Ortea & Valdés, 1996 * ''Felimare nyalya'' Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967 * ''Felimare olgae'' Ortea & Bacallado, 2007 * ''Felimare orsinii'' Vérany, 1846 * ''Felimare picta'' Schultz in Philippi, 1836 * ''Felimare pinna'' Ortea, 1988 * ''Felimare ruthae'' Ev. Marcus & Hughes, 1974 * ''Felimare samueli'' Caballer & Ortea, 2012 * ''Felimare sechurana'' Hoover, Padula, Schrödl, Hooker & Valdés, 2017 * ''Felimare sycilla'' Bergh, 1890 * ''Felimare tema'' Edmunds, 1981 * ''Felimare tricolor'' Cantraine, 1835 * ''Felimare villafranca'' Risso, 1818 * ''Felimare xicoi'' Ortea & Valdés, 1996 * ''Felimare zebra'' Heilprin, 1889 {{div col end}}

;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Felimare francoisae'' Bouchet, 1981: synonym of ''Neptunazurea francoisae'' * ''Felimare garciagomezi'' Ortea & Á. Valdés, 1996: synonym of ''Neptunazurea garciagomezi'' * ''Felimare ghiselini'' Bertsch, 1978: synonym of ''Felimare californiensis'' Bergh, 1879 * ''Felimare kempfi'' Ev. Marcus, 1971: synonym of ''Neptunazurea kempfi'' * ''Felimare midatlantica'' Gosliner, 1990: synonym of ''Felimare tricolor'' Cantraine, 1835 * ''Felimare molloi'' Ortea & Á. Valdés, 1996: synonym of ''Neptunazurea molloi'' * ''Felimare porterae'' T. D. A. Cockerell, 1901: synonym of ''Neptunazurea porterae'' * ''Felimare sisalensis'' Ortigosa & Á. Valdés, 2012: synonym of ''Neptunazurea sisalensis'' * ''Felimare verdensis'' Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996: synonym of ''Felimare tema'' Edmunds, 1981

==Gallery== <gallery mode="packed" style="text-align:center;" heights="120px"> Image:NKN 3186-1.jpg|''Felimare bilineata'' Image:Nudibrankioa.jpg|''Felimare cantabrica'' Image:Felimare fontandraui (Pruvot-Fol, 1951), Dysidea fragilis (Montagu, 1818) 1.jpg|''Felimare fontandraui'' Image:BEP 1457-1.jpg|''Felimare orsinii'' Image:Regal Sea Goddess Nudibranch.jpg|''Felimare picta'' Image:BEPBS 5753-1.jpg|''Felimare lajensis'' Image:BEPBS 5844-1.jpg|''Felimare marci'' Image:Felimare tricolor (Cantraine, 1835).jpg|''Felimare tricolor'' Image:Hypselodoris villafranca.JPG|''Felimare villafranca'' Image:Hypselodoris zebra 001.jpg|''Felimare zebra'' </gallery>

==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}}

Category:Chromodorididae Category:Taxa named by Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus Category:Taxa named by Ernst Marcus (zoologist) Category:Gastropod genera