WoRMS taxon details
Hypselodoris infucata (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1831)
AphiaID: 139151
AphiaID: 139151
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Euctenidiacea (Suborder) > Doridacea (Infraorder) > Doridoidea (Superfamily) > Chromodorididae (Family) > Hypselodoris (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Hypselodoris Stimpson, 1855 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Chromodoris runcinata Bergh, 1877 Doris infucata Rüppell & Leuckart, 1831 (original combination) Glossodoris runcinata (Bergh, 1877) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] basis of record: Rudman W.B. (1977) Chromodorid opisthobranch Mollusca from East Africa and the tropical West Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 61: 351-397. [details] additional source: 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] additional source: 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] additional source: Rudman W.B. (1984) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: a review of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 81 (2/3): 115-273. page(s): 207 [details] additional source: Gosliner, T.M., Behrens, D.W. & Valdés, Á. (2008) Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and seaslugs. A field guide to the world's most diverse fauna. Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Washington, 426 pp. page(s): 264 [details] additional source: Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN: 978-3-939767-06-0 page(s): 127 [details] status source: Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479., available online at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033479 [details] from synonym: McDonald G. (2009) Nudibranch Systematic Index. 2nd online edition. 724 pp. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/93c42364 page(s): 200 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | East Coast of South Africa [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To PESI To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Up to 4 cm long. Ground colour purplish-grey with a creamy central band, and covered in dark blue and yellow spots and creamy patches. The rhinophores are bright orange red and the gills bright red and whtie. Habitat: diverse, among shallow coral reefs. Distribution: W Indian Ocean, Red Sea to W Pacific Ocean (Richmond, 1997). [details] Nomenclature: Gosliner, Behrens & Valdes (2008) record this species as H. infucata (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139151 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Caballer, M.; Gofas, S. (2013). Hypselodoris infucata (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1831). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139151 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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