WoRMS taxon details
Acanthodoris pilosa (Abildgaard in Müller, 1789)
AphiaID: 140627
AphiaID: 140627
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Euctenidiacea (Suborder) > Doridacea (Infraorder) > Onchidoridoidea (Superfamily) > Onchidorididae (Family) > Acanthodoris (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Acanthodoris pallida Bergh, 1905 Acanthodoris subquadrata (Alder & Hancock, 1845) (synonym) Doris flemingii Forbes, 1838 (synonym) Doris similis Alder & Hancock, 1842 (synonym) Doris stellata Gmelin, 1791 (synonym) Doris sublaevis Thompson, 1840 (synonym) Doris subquadrata Alder & Hancock, 1842 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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] 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: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details] additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 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: Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 [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: 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] 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] from synonym: Bleakney, J.S. 1996. Sea slugs of Atlantic Canada and the Gulf of Maine. The Nova Scotia Museum Field Guide Series. Nimbus Publishing. Halifax. 216 p. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Beaufort Sea [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Brier Island [details] British Isles [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] De Haan [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Oostduinkerke [details] Oostende [details] Oosterschelde [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] USA [details] Wadden Sea [details] Wimereux [details] Zeeland [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Doridicola agilis Leydig, 1853 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lichomolgus agilis (Leydig, 1853) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Splanchnotrophus gracilis Hancock & Norman, 1863 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Splanchnotrophus gracilis Hancock & Norman, 1863 (parasitic: endoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (91 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Authority: The correct author of Acanthodoris pilosa is (Abildgaard, 1789) and not (Müller, 1776) as Odhner, 1907; Pruvot-Fol, 1954; Abbott, 1974 and Bouchet & Tardy, 1976 maintain. [details] Authority: (Müller, 1776) [details] Dimensions: reaches 15 to 30 mm in size [details] Distribution: Arctic Seas to Ocean City, Maryland [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy shore of Nova Scotia to Virginia [details] Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] Taxonomy: Suborder: Doridacea, according to Trott (2004). [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Images |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140627 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Acanthodoris pilosa (Abildgaard in Müller, 1789). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140627 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |
