Trapania

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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| image =Trapania_maculata_Haefelfinger,_1960.jpg

| image_caption = A live individual of Trapania maculata, in situ, head towards the bottom of the image

| taxon = Trapania

| authority = Pruvot-Fol, 1931Pruvot-Fol A. (1931). Bull. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris (2)3: 309.

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Trapania is a genus of sea slugs, specifically dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Goniodorididae.{{WRMS species|138043|Trapania Pruvot-Fol, 1931||10 January 2019}}

Description

The genus Trapania is distinguished from other goniodorid nudibranchs by the possession of two pairs of lateral papillae which arise from the remnant of the pallial margin and curve backwards parallel with the main body axis. One pair arises just outside the rhinophores and the other just outside the gill cluster. A pair of prominent oral tentacles are attached to the front of the head.

Species

Species within the genus Trapania include:

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Gallery

Image:Trapania armilla003.jpg|Trapania armilla

Image:Trapania-cirrita.jpg|Trapania cirrita

Image:B152039-3.jpg|Trapania euryeia

Image:B151912-1.jpg|Trapania gibbera

Image:Trapania maculata Haefelfinger, 1960 - tentative d'accouplement.jpg|Trapania maculata

Image:B151876-1.jpg|Trapania miltabrancha

Image:Trapania pallida B171476.jpg|Trapania pallida

Image:B152007-1.jpg|Trapania palmula

Image:B158108-1.jpg|Trapania scurra

Image:B152012-1.jpg|Trapania tora

References