Tayuva lilacina

Tayuva lilacina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Nudipleura; clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily:	Doridoidea
Family:	Discodorididae
Genus:	Tayuva
Species:	T. lilacina
Binomial name
	Tayuva lilacina; (Gould, 1852)
Synonyms
	Chromodoris lilacina (Gould, 1852); Diaulula hummelincki (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963); Discodoris confusa Ballesteros, Llera & Ortea, 1985; Discodoris hummelincki (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963); Discodoris ketos (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967); Discodoris ketos gila (Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970); Discodoris ketos ketos (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967); Discodoris lilacina (Gould, 1852); Discodoris maculosa Bergh, 1884; Discodoris palma Allan, 1933; Doris lilacina Gould, 1852 (basionym); Peltodoris crucis (Mörch, 1863) sensu Bergh, 1880 (misidentification); Peltodoris hummelincki Marcus & Marcus, 1963; Tayuva ketos Marcus & Marcus, 1967; Tayuva ketos gila Marcus & Marcus, 1970; Tayuva ketos juva Marcus & Marcus, 1970; Tayuva ketos ketos Marcus & Marcus, 1967;

Tayuva lilacina is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Discodorididae.^[3] A number of species descriptions are considered to be synonyms.^[4]

^ Gould A. (1852). Mollusca and Shells [in]: United States Exploring Expeditions, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N.. Philadelphia, C. Sherman & son : vol. 12, xv + 510 pp., page(s): 297-298
^ Ballesteros M., Llera E. M. & Ortea J. (1985). Revision de les Doridacea (Mollusca: Opistobranchia) del Atlantico nordeste atribuibles al complejo maculosa-fragilis. Bollettino Malacologico 20 (9-12): 227-257.
^ ^a ^b Bouchet, P. (2011). Tayuva lilacina (Gould, 1852). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2011-08-23.
^ Dayrat B. 2010. A monographic revision of discodorid sea slugs (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia, Doridina). Archived 2015-09-08 at the Wayback Machine Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, vol. 61, suppl. I, 1-403, 382 figs.