Benoît Dayrat
Pennsylvania State University
27 Papers
133 Citations
Benoît Dayrat is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Onchidiidae & Euthyneura. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 27 publications. Previous affiliations of Benoît Dayrat include California Academy of Sciences & University of California, Merced.
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Papers
A new genus and three new species of mangrove slugs from the Indo-West Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Euthyneura: Onchidiidae)
Benoît Dayrat,Tricia C. Goulding,Munawar Khalil,Deepak Apte,Adam J. Bourke,Joseph Comendador,Shau Hwai Tan +6 more
TL;DR: A new genus of onchidiid slugs is described, Paromoionchis Dayrat & Goulding gen. nov., which includes five species, three of which are new, distributed from western India to the subtropical waters of Japan and southeastern Australia.
Crawling through time: Transition of snails to slugs dating back to the Paleozoic, based on mitochondrial phylogenomics.
Mónica Medina,Shruti Lal,Yvonne Vallès,Tori L. Takaoka,Benoît Dayrat,Jeffrey L. Boore,Terrence M. Gosliner +6 more
TL;DR: This work names three new clades within the Opisthobranchia, the Actopleura (Acteonoidea plus Nudipleura, Placoesophaga, and Siphoglossa, and uses molecular clock dating that suggests an earlier opisth Hobranch divergence than previously reported.
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Anatomical re-description of the terrestrial onchidiid slug semperoncis montana (plate, 1893)
TL;DR: The anatomy of Semperoncis montana, a terrestrial species that lives in high-elevation rain forests of the Philippines Islands, is redescribed based on 91 specimens representing ten populations and Ontogenetic changes in the shape of male organs are described and illustrated in detail, indicating that S. montana was described based on immature specimens of the later named Platevindex apoikistes.
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Review of the current knowledge of the systematics of Onchidiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) with a checklist of nominal species
TL;DR: A checklist of all 143 species names available in Onchidiidae is provided, as a first step towards a systematic revision of systematics of this taxon.
Species names and metaphyly: a case study in Discodorididae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Nudibranchia, Doridina)
TL;DR: A case study in Discodorididae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Euthyneura, Nudibranchia, Doridina) —Zoologica Scripta, **, ***–***.
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