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Elysia ornata (Swainson, 1840) 
AphiaID: 139682

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Sacoglossa (Order) > Plakobranchacea (Suborder) > Plakobranchoidea (Superfamily) > Plakobranchidae (Family) > Elysia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Elysia Risso, 1818
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: 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]

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]

Environment marine
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Colombia [details]
Costa Rica [details]
Cuba [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Jamaica [details]
Lesser Antilles [details]
Mozambique [details]
Host of  Endozoicomonas elysicola Kurahashi & Yokota, 2007 (unknown)
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (42 nucleotides; 25 proteins)
To PESI
To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org)
To ITIS
Note  Description: Pale or olive green body, up to 5 cm long, with black and white speckles and a black and orange edging to the parapodia, usually repeated at the tips of the rhinophores, sometimes separated by a white line. Feeds on the green algae Bryopsis. Habitat: rock pools and shallow sublittoral where green algae occur. Distribution: pantropical; tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139682
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Elysia ornata (Swainson, 1840). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139682 on 2013-05-25
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