Chelidonura

Chelidonura is a genus of small, sometimes colorful, sea slugs. These are headshield slugs or cephalaspideans, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Aglajidae.^[1]

Chelidonura
Chelidonura varians
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subterclass:	Tectipleura
Order:	Cephalaspidea
Family:	Aglajidae
Genus:	Chelidonura A. Adams, 1850
Type species
Bulla hirundinina Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
Species
See text

The two rather long "tails" at the end of the animal are characteristic of the genus.

Species

Species with the genus Chelidonura include:^[2]

• Chelidonura alisonae Gosliner, 2011
• Chelidonura amoena Bergh, 1905
• Chelidonura castanea Yonow, 1994
• Chelidonura cubana Ortea & Martínez, 1997
• Chelidonura electra Rudman, 1970
• Chelidonura flavolobata Heller & Thompson 1983
• Chelidonura fulvipunctata Baba, 1938
• Chelidonura hirundinina (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
• Chelidonura inornata Baba, 1949
• Chelidonura livida Yonow, 1994^[3]
• Chelidonura mariagordae Ortea, Espinosa & Moro, 2004
• Chelidonura normani Ornelas-Gatdula, Dupont & Valdés, 2011
• Chelidonura orchidaea Perrone, 1990^[4]
• Chelidonura pallida Risbec, 1951^[5]
• Chelidonura punctata Eliot, 1903
• Chelidonura sandrana Rudman, 1973^[6]
• Chelidonura varians Eliot, 1903^[7]

Species brought into synonymy

• Chelidonura aureopunctata Rudman, 1968: synonym of Philinopsis taronga (Allan, 1933)
• Chelidonura babai Gosliner, 1988: synonym of Chelidonura sandrana Rudman, 1973
• Chelidonura conformata Burn, 1966: synonym of Biuve fulvipunctata (Baba, 1938)
• Chelidonura italica Sordi, 1980: synonym of Camachoaglaja africana (Pruvot-Fol, 1953)
• Chelidonura larramendii Ortea, Espinosa & Moro, 2009: synonym of Camachoaglaja larramendii (Ortea, Espinosa & Moro, 2009)
• Chelidonura mediterranea Swennen, 1961: synonym of Biuve fulvipunctata (Baba, 1938)
• Chelidonura nyanyana Edmunds, 1968: synonym of Navanax orbignyanus (Rochebrune, 1881)
• Chelidonura petra Ev. Marcus, 1976: synonym of Spinoaglaja petra (Ev. Marcus, 1976)
• Chelidonura philinopsis Eliot, 1903:^[8] synonym of Chelidonura hirundinina (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
• Chelidonura sabadiega Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1997: synonym of Mannesia sabadiega (Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1997)