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

Gargamella Bergh, 1894

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gargamella (Canadoris)*	Ortea, Moro & Bacallado, 2006	synonym

Children

Gargamella boucheti (Ortea, 1979)
Gargamella lemchei (Ev. Marcus, 1976)
Gargamella perezi (Llera & Ortea, 1982)
Gargamella rosi (Ortea, 1979)

Literature

original description	Bergh, L. S. R. (1894). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer “Albatross,” during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S.N. commanding. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 25: 125-233 [October 1894].
basis of record	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.
additional source	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
status source	Fernández-Vilert, R.; Arnedo, M. A.; Salvador, X.; Valdés, Á.; Schrödl, M.; Moles, J. (2024). Shining disco: shedding light into the systematics of the family Discodorididae (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 203(1): zlae170: 1-15.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Gargamella Bergh, 1894. 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:456331