Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Doridina > Infraorder Doridoidei > Superfamily Doridoidea > Family Discodorididae

Rostanga Bergh, 1879

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Boreodoris*	Odhner, 1939	synonym

Children

Rostanga anthelia Perrone, 1991
Rostanga rubra (Risso, 1818)
Rostanga setidens (Odhner, 1939)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Sponge Dorids

Literature

original description	Bergh, L. S. R. (1879). Gattungen nordische Doriden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 45(1): 340-369, pl. 19.
basis of record	Valdés Á. & Gosliner T.M. 2001. Systematics and phylogeny of the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 133(2): 103-198
additional source	Valdés Á. (2002). A phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of the cryptobranch dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Anthobranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 136: 535-636.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Rostanga Bergh, 1879. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138461