WoRMS taxon details
Eubranchus tricolor Forbes, 1838
AphiaID: 139771
AphiaID: 139771
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Dexiarchia (Suborder) > Aeolidida (Infraorder) > Fionoidea (Superfamily) > Eubranchidae (Family) > Eubranchus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Eubranchus Forbes, 1838 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Eubranchus Forbes, 1838 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Egalvina viridula (Bergh, 1873) Eolis amethystina Alder & Hancock, 1845 (synonym) Eolis tricolor (Forbes, 1838) (synonym) Eolis violacea Alder & Hancock, 1844 (synonym) Galvina tricolor (Forbes, 1838) (synonym) Galvina viridula Bergh, 1873 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Forbes E. (1838) Malacologia Monensis: a catalogue of the Mollusca inhabiting the Isle of Man and the neighbouring sea. Edinburgh: J. Carfrae and son pp. XII + 63 + 3 pl. page(s): 5, fig. 1 [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: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p. [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Edmunds M. & Kress A. (1969). On the european species of Eubranchus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 49 (4): 879-912 page(s): 880 [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] from synonym: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Authority: The species name Eubranchus tricolor is stated as valid by the ICZN (Op. 774) [details] Dimensions: maximum size to 30 mm [details] Synonymy: According to Pruvot-Fol (1954) the species Amphorina alberti Quatrefages, 1844 is a synonym of E. tricolor . Recent research has shown that they were considered as separated genera (e.g. Bouchet & Tardy, 1976; Thompson & Brown 1976; Schmekel & Portmann, 1982). [details] Taxonomy: Suborder: Aeolidacea, according to Trott (2004). [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139771 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Caballer, M.; Gofas, S. (2013). Eubranchus tricolor Forbes, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139771 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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