Kynaria, 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 : 62

Kynaria gen. n.

Type species.

Coryphella cynara Marcus & Marcus, 1967

Etymology.

From the Greek word κινάρα, which means “artichoke”, in reference to the Latinised name of the type species " C. " cynara which was originally named after the peculiar shape of its body which appeared when the animal folded its cerata, so the general outline of the body became similar to an artichoke.

Diagnosis.

Body narrow. Notum discontinuous. Cerata on low elevations, in several groups. Rhinophores perfoliated, shorter than oral tentacles. Anterior foot corners present. Anus mixed: pleuroproctic shifted towards dorsal acleioproctic position. Rachidian teeth with narrow non-compressed cusp and distinct denticles. Lateral teeth with attenuated process basally. Moderately long vas deferens with indistinct prostate. No external penial collar. Penis large, globular, tuberculated.

Species included.

Kynaria cynara (Marcus & Marcus, 1967), comb. n. (original description in Marcus and Marcus 1967).

Remarks.

Kynaria cynara possesses a very special large globular copulative apparatus which is unknown among species of traditional Flabellinidae ( Marcus and Marcus 1967; Millen and Hermosillo 2007). In combination with the anus in a higher acleioproctic position this puts Kynaria cynara apart from any other families analysed here or genera of traditional Flabellinidae . Kynaria cynara also demonstrates peculiar swimming behaviour ( Marcus and Marcus 1967). No molecular data is available for Kynaria cynara , and it is separated into a new genus Kynaria gen. n. based on morphological data; its family placement as incertae sedis remains until molecular data are available.