{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Verconia laboutei 1.jpg | image_caption = ''Verconia romeri'' | taxon = Verconia | authority = Pruvot-Fol, 1931 <ref name="PF1931">Pruvot-Fol A. (1931-1932). Notes de systématique sur les opisthobranches. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. ser. 2, 3(3): 308-316 [March 1931]; 3(8): 746-755 [1932]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/244728#page/316/mode/1up</ref> | synonyms = ''Noumea'' <small>Risbec, 1928</small> | type_species = ''Verconia verconis'' | type_species_authority = Basedow & Hedley, 1905 }}
'''''Verconia''''' is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae.<ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase (2026). [https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533937 ''Verconia'' Pruvot-Fol, 1931.] Accessed on 2026-04-19.</ref>
The host sponges for species in this genus are sponges in the genera ''Darwinella'' and ''Dendrilla''.
''Noumea'' <small>Risbec, 1928</small> (Mollusca: Gastropoda) is a junior homonym of ''Noumea'' <small>Fauvel, 1874</small> (Arthropoda: Coleoptera), a name in current use. ''Verconia'' <small>Pruvot-Fol, 1931</small> was recognized as a synonym of ''Noumea'' <small>Risbec</small> by Johnson & Gosliner (2012) and is here used for species of the chromodoridid group previously known as ''Noumea''.<ref name="WoRMS" /><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>
== Species == Species in the genus ''Verconia'' include:<ref name="WoRMS" /><ref>Rudman W. B. (1984). "The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: a review of the genera". ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'' '''81'''(2/3): 115-273. pages: 137.</ref><ref>Rudman W.B. (1988). ''The Chromodorididae (Ophistobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: the genus Ceratosoma J.E. Gray''. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93 (1): 133-185. page(s): 181</ref><ref>Rudman W. B. & Darvell B. W. (1990). "Opisthobranch molluscs of Hong Kong: Part 1. Goniodorididae, Onchidorididae, Triophidae, Gymnodorididae, Chromodorididae (Nudibranchia)". ''Asian Marine Biology'' '''7''': 31-79. pages: 54.</ref><ref>Rudman W. B. (1990). "The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: further species of ''Glossodoris'', ''Thorunna'' and the ''Chromodoris aureomarginata'' colour group". ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'' '''100''': 263-326. pages: 295, 298.</ref> * ''Verconia alboannulata'' Rudman, 1986 * ''Verconia aureopunctata'' Rudman, 1987 * ''Verconia catalai'' Rudman, 1990 * ''Verconia closeorum'' Rudman, 1986 * ''Verconia decussata'' Risbec, 1928 * ''Verconia haliclona'' Burn, 1957 * ''Verconia hongkongiensis'' Rudman, 1990 * ''Verconia laboutei'' Rudman, 1986 * ''Verconia nivalis'' Baba, 1937 * ''Verconia norba'' Marcus & Marcus, 1970 * ''Verconia parva'' (Baba, 1949) * ''Verconia protea'' Gosliner, 1994<ref>Gosliner T. M. (1994). "New species of ''Chromodoris'' and ''Noumea'' (Nudibranch: Chromodorididae) from the Western Indian Ocean and Southern Africa". ''Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci.'' '''12''' 48:239-252</ref> * ''Verconia purpurea'' Baba, 1949 * ''Verconia romeri'' Risbec, 1928 - type species * ''Verconia simplex'' Pease, 1871 * ''Verconia spencerensis'' Rudman, 1987 * ''Verconia subnivalis'' Baba, 1987 * ''Verconia sudanica'' Rudman, 1985 * ''Verconia varians'' Pease, 1871 * ''Verconia verconiforma'' Rudman, 1995 * ''Verconia verconis'' <small>Basedow & Hedley, 1905</small>
Species brought into synonymy: * ''Noumea angustolutea'' Rudman, 1990: synonym of ''Ardeadoris angustolutea'' (Rudman, 1990) * ''Noumea cameroni'' Burn, 1966: synonym of ''Verconia haliclona'' (Burn, 1957) * ''Noumea closei'' Rudman, 1986: synonym of ''Verconia closeorum'' Rudman, 1986 * ''Noumea crocea'' Rudman, 1986: synonym of ''Diversidoris crocea'' (Rudman, 1986) * ''Noumea flava'' (Eliot, 1904): synonym of ''Diversidoris flava'' (Eliot, 1904) * ''Noumea margaretae'' Burn, 1966: synonym of ''Verconia haliclona'' (Burn, 1957) * ''Noumea regalis'' Ortea, Caballer & Moro, 2001: synonym of ''Felimida regalis'' (Ortea, Caballer & Moro, 2001) * ''Noumea sulphurea'' Rudman, 1986: synonym of ''Diversidoris sulphurea'' (Rudman, 1986) * ''Noumea violacea'' Risbec, 1930: synonym of ''Hallaxa indecora'' (Bergh, 1905)
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Category:Chromodorididae Category:Taxa named by Alice Pruvot-Fol