WoRMS taxon details
Scyllaea pelagica Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 141425
AphiaID: 141425
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Dexiarchia (Suborder) > Dendronotida (Infraorder) > Tritonioidea (Superfamily) > Scyllaeidae (Family) > Scyllaea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Scyllaea Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Scyllaea edwardsii A. E. Verrill, 1878 Scyllaea grayae A. Adams & Reeve, 1850 Scyllaea pelagica var. marginata Bergh, 1871 | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [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: 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: 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] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Scyllaea pelagica var. marginata Bergh, 1871 accepted as Scyllaea pelagica Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (81 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 8 proteins) To PESI To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||
| Notes |
Description: Chunky body, up to 6 cm long, with the mantle ridge bearing a line of brown pigment and one or two pairs of irregularly squared cerata which have gills on their inner surfaces. The rhinophores emerge from elongated sheaths. Habitat: lives and feeds on hydroids among the seaweed Sargassum; often washed up on the shore with floating weed. Distribution: pantropical. [details] Distribution: Massachusetts to the West Indies [details] | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141425 | |||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Scyllaea pelagica Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141425 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||
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