Roboastra

Roboastra is a genus of sea slugs, polycerid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Polyceridae. They are carnivorous, feeding on other species of nudibranch.

Roboastra
Roboastra_gracilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Superfamily:	Polyceroidea
Family:	Polyceridae
Subfamily:	Nembrothinae
Genus:	Roboastra Bergh, 1877[1]
Species
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Species

Species in the genus Roboastra include:^[2]

• Roboastra arika Burn, 1967
• Roboastra gracilis (Bergh, 1877)
• Roboastra rubropapulosa (Bergh, 1905)
• Roboastra tentaculata (Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2005)^[3]

Species transferred to other genera:

• Roboastra caboverdensis Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2003 synonym of Tyrannodoris caboverdensis (Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2003)
• Roboastra ernsti Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014 synonym of Tyrannodoris ernsti (Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014)
• Roboastra europaea García-Gómez, 1985 synonym of Tyrannodoris europaea (García-Gómez, 1985)
• Roboastra gratiosa (Bergh, 1890) synonym of Tambja gratiosa
• Roboastra leonis Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2005 synonym of Tyrannodoris leonis (Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2005)
• Roboastra luteolineata (Baba, 1936) synonym of Tyrannodoris luteolineata (Baba, 1936)
• Roboastra nikolasi Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014 synonym of Tyrannodoris nikolasi (Pola, Padula, Gosliner & Cervera, 2014)
• Roboastra ricei Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2008 synonym of Tyrannodoris ricei (Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2008)
• Roboastra tigris Farmer, 1978 synonym of Tyrannodoris tigris (Farmer, 1978)