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Adalaria proxima (Alder & Hancock, 1854) 
AphiaID: 140629

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Euctenidiacea (Suborder) > Doridacea (Infraorder) > Onchidoridoidea (Superfamily) > Onchidorididae (Family) > Adalaria (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Adalaria Bergh, 1878
Synonymised
taxa
  Doris proxima Alder & Hancock, 1854 (original combination)
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: 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]

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: 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: 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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English false doris  [details]
English yellow false doris  [details]
German rote Sternschnecke  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic [details]
Bar Road [details]
Bristol Channel [details]
British Isles [details]
Canada [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Digby [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Irish Sea [details]
L'Etang [details]
Minas Basin [details]
Navy Island [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Pacific Ocean [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saint Martins [details]
South Coast of England [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
USA [details]
West Coast of Ireland [details]
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 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: (Alder & Hancock, 1845) [details]

Dimensions: maximum size of 15 mm  [details]

Distribution: Arctic seas to Eastport, Maine, including the Cobscook Bay. Europe [details]

Habitat: bathyal of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]

Taxonomy: Suborder: Doridacea, according to Trott (2004). [details]
Images 
Adalaria proxima (Alder & Hancock, 1854)
Adalaria proxima (Alder & Hancock, 1854)
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Adalaria proxima
Adalaria proxima
added on 2012-12-28 - author: Nozères, Claude
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140629
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Adalaria proxima (Alder & Hancock, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140629 on 2013-05-20
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