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'''''Knoutsodonta''''' is a genus of dorid nudibranchs in the family Onchidorididae.<ref name="WoRMS">Bouchet, P. (2015). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=845525 ''Knoutsodonta'' Hallas & Gosliner, 2015.] In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2018-09-10.</ref> The radular teeth are an unusual shape<ref name="Alvim2011">{{Cite journal | last1 = Alvim | first1 = J. | last2 = Padula | first2 = V. | last3 = Pimenta | first3 = A. D. | doi = 10.1017/S002531541000202X | title = First record of the genus ''Onchidoris'' (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Onchidorididae) from the South Atlantic Ocean, with the description of a new species from Brazil | journal = Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom | volume = 91 | issue = 2 | pages = 505–511 | year = 2011 }}</ref> and a molecular phylogeny study showed that they are not closely related to some other species of ''Onchidoris'' within which genus they were formerly placed.<ref name=HG2015 />

== Species == Species within the genus ''Knoutsodonta'' include: * ''Knoutsodonta albonigra'' <small>(Pruvot-Fol, 1951)</small> * ''Knoutsodonta bouvieri'' <small>(Vayssière, 1919)</small> * ''Knoutsodonta brasiliensis'' <small>(Alvim, Padula & Pimenta, 2011)</small><ref name="WoRMS" /> * ''Knoutsodonta cervinoi'' <small>(Ortea & Urgorri, 1979)</small> * ''Knoutsodonta depressa'' <small>(Alder & Hancock, 1842)</small><ref name="WoRMS" /> * ''Knoutsodonta inconspicua'' <small>(Alder & Hancock, 1851)</small> * ''Knoutsodonta jannae'' <small>(Millen, 1987)</small> - type species<ref name="WoRMS" /> * ''Knoutsodonta jannaella'' <small>(Martynov, N. Sanamyan & Korshunova, 2015)</small> * ''Knoutsodonta maugeansis'' <small>(Burn, 1958)</small> * ''Knoutsodonta neapolitana'' <small>(Delle Chiaje, 1841)</small> * ''Knoutsodonta oblonga'' <small>(Alder & Hancock, 1845)</small><ref name="WoRMS" /> * ''Knoutsodonta pictoni'' <small>Furfaro & Trainito, 2017</small> * ''Knoutsodonta pusilla'' <small>(Alder & Hancock, 1845)</small> * ''Knoutsodonta reticulata'' <small>(Ortea, 1979)</small> * ''Knoutsodonta sparsa'' <small>(Alder & Hancock, 1846)</small> * ''Knoutsodonta tridactila'' <small>(Ortea & Ballesteros, 1982)</small>

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Category:Onchidorididae Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa named by Terrence Gosliner