Taringa is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod molluscs in the family Discodorididae.

[10] Valdés & Gosliner (2001)[10] synonymized the genera Aporodoris Ihering, 1886 and Taringa Er.

Valdés & Gosliner (2001)[10] carried out an erroneous reversal precedence.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature should publish a decision on which name should be used in such cases, according to Article 23.10 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.

Dayrat (2010)[11] agreed with the synonymization of the genera Aporodoris and Taringa.