Apata, Korshunova, Tatiana, Martynov, Alexander, Bakken, Torkild, Evertsen, Jussi, Fletcher, Karin, Mudianta, I Wayan, Saito, Hiroshi, Lundin, Kennet, Michael Schroedl, & Picton, Bernard, 2017

Korshunova, Tatiana, Martynov, Alexander, Bakken, Torkild, Evertsen, Jussi, Fletcher, Karin, Mudianta, I Wayan, Saito, Hiroshi, Lundin, Kennet, Michael Schroedl, & Picton, Bernard, 2017, Polyphyly of the traditional family Flabellinidae affects a major group of Nudibranchia: aeolidacean taxonomic reassessment with descriptions of several new families, genera, and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda), ZooKeys 717, pp. 1-139 : 59-60

Apata gen. n. Figs 45, 48

Type species.

Coryphella pricei MacFarland, 1966

Etymology.

From the Russian form "apata" of the Ancient Greek Απατη, a deity of deceit, in reference to some deceptive features of the new genus and family, which are highly similar (especially the radular teeth) to the family Flabellinidae , but some other characters (e.g., comb-like instead of pedunculate ceratal rows) and molecular phylogenetic data place the new taxon in a very separate position from true flabellinids, making the traditional family Flabellinidae remarkably polyphyletic.

Diagnosis.

Body narrow. Notal ridge completely absent. Cerata in several distinct rows. Rhinophores perfoliated, shorter than oral tentacles. Anterior foot corners present. Anus mixed: pleuroproctic shifted towards a dorsal acleioproctic position. Rachidian teeth with narrow compressed cusp and distinct denticles. Lateral teeth with attenuated process basally. Moderately long vas deferens widened distally, prostate indistinct. No external penial collar. Penis bluntly conical.

Species included.

Apata pricei pricei (MacFarland, 1966), comb. n. (original description in MacFarland 1966), Apata pricei komandorica subsp. n.