WoRMS taxon details
Alderia modesta (Lovén, 1844)
AphiaID: 141555
AphiaID: 141555
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Sacoglossa (Order) > Plakobranchacea (Suborder) > Limapontioidea (Superfamily) > Limapontiidae (Family) > Alderia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Alderia Allman, 1845 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Alderia amphibia Allman, 1845 (synonym) Alderia harvardiensis Gould, 1870 Alderia scaldiana Nyst, 1855 (synonym) Stiliger modestus Lovén, 1844 (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: 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: 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: 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 (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] British Isles [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] German Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Het Zwin [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Lombardsijde [details] North West Atlantic [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Schelde estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Westerschelde [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (72 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (106 nucleotides; 93 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To Sea Slug Forum (via archive.org) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Classification: Vader (1981) has placed A. modesta in a new family: Alderiidae. [details] Dimensions: maximum size of 6 to 8 mm [details] Distribution: Newfoundland to New York State [details] Distribution: This species is a typical brackish species. [details] Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141555 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Alderia modesta (Lovén, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141555 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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