WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817

Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817
AphiaID: 138759

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Anaspidea (Order) > Aplysioidea (Superfamily) > Aplysiidae (Family) > Bursatella (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Typetaxon of

Bursatella Blainville, 1817

Parent

Bursatella Blainville, 1817

Synonymised
taxa

Aclesia glauca Cheeseman, 1878
Bursatella leachi [sic] (misspelling)

Sources

original description: Blainville H.M.D. de (1817). Bursatella, p. 138, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 5, supplément. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23001647
page(s): 138 [details]

basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Willan, R. (2009). Opisthobranchia (Mollusca). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

from synonym: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011) Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone. Online http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz/ [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	shaggy sea hare (from synonym)	[details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]

Subspecies Bursatella leachii guineensis Bebbington, 1969
Subspecies Bursatella leachii leachii Blainville, 1817
Subspecies Bursatella leachii pleii Rang, 1828
Subspecies Bursatella leachii savigniana Audouin, 1826

Environment

marine

Distribution

Caribbean Sea [details]
Colombia [details]
Cuba [details]
East Coast of South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Lesser Antilles [details]
Malta [details]
Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
South Coast of South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Venezuela [details]

Links

To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To PESI
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
To ITIS

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